BearingsFrom a compass direction
Name: Date:
Write each bearing with three figures, measured clockwise from north.
1Bearing of B from A?
2Bearing of B from A?
3Bearing of B from A?
4Bearing of B from A?
5Bearing of B from A?
6Bearing of B from A?
Bearings worksheets
A bearing is an angle with three rules stacked on it: measured from north, turning clockwise, and always written with three digits. None of the three is difficult and all three are where marks go missing.
If they get stuck
Bearings
The answer key prints on a separate page.
What's on this sheet
The three-figure convention is the whole point of the notation. Forty degrees east of north is 040°, not 40° and certainly not 50° — the leading zero is not decoration, it is what makes a bearing unambiguous when it is read aloud or written down in a hurry. Each figure on these sheets has north drawn at the point you are measuring from and the turn marked clockwise, so the convention is visible rather than remembered.
Why this sheet works
The back bearing is the second half. If the bearing of B from A is 070°, the bearing of A from B is 250° — add 180 and wrap round if you go past 360. A student who always adds gets 400° on anything past 180, and a student who always subtracts gets a negative, so the sheets deal both sides of 180 on every page and the wrap has to be handled rather than guessed round.
How this one works
One question off this sheet, worked a step at a time — with a sentence saying what just happened and why.
Bearings, step by step