In which year group do children learn about plotting co-ordinates?

[blackeyedsusan]

and what are the main points they need to know?

Along the corridor, then up the stairs. To help them remember to go across, then up.

I work in Juniors and have y3 plotting within squares, y4 plotting to points in 1 quadrant, y5 plotting to points within 4 quadrants (inc minus numbers) and y6 plotting 6 figs in geography.
They may start earlier too, but we don't have infants so not sure.

ds started in year 3 as 2kids says.

Time to start playing Battleships.

I start it in year 1 as part of a pirates topic where we're searching for treasure and marking landmarks on maps (eg. put a palm tree on A,4). Generally at this stage there are letters on the x axis, numbers on the y axis.

I've always found children both enjoy co-ordinate work and tend to find it quite easy. I'm not sure if it's specifically in Key Stage 1 guidelines, but I've always covered it at a simple level.

007, it did not seem too difficult and thought i may have missed something. I stumbled across some website games and let dd have a go at the easy ones...

I suspect the points verses square may add difficulty and the negative numbers.

what do y6 do to plot 3 figures... [oh bloody hell that sounds hard emotion]

Co-ordinates in geography are normally plotted to six figures ( and associated letters but don't worry about that!) but only pairs are shown on a map, so the divisions would be for example a square bounded by 45,46 along the x axis and 34,35 along the y. This covers a large area so the children learn to "divide" each axis into decimal equivalents, so a church in the square might be found at (457,343). Nothing complicated fopr the average year 6 who will be used to working in decimals!

DD's in year one and started last term. They incentivised them to learn by telling they'd be doing an Easter egg hunt on the last day of term where all the clues were co-ordinates on a map of the play ground - oddly enough it was very successful

Agree started in Y3 - as simple plotting in square (treasure map type exercises) - Y4 started x/y positive/ negative co-ordinates.

Agree with joanofarchitrave - battleship is a great game to teach this skill!

Coordinates are taught in Y2

mrz

Sorry possibly wasn't clear. I'm just a parent, referring to our school. DD1 coloured in caterpillar segments and train cars for her 12 homeworks in Y2.

DD2 (now year 2) has to date not had any co-ordinate work - mainly data table work & Venn diagram work, aside from basic calculation work (addition, subtraction and simply multiplication (x2/ x5/ x10).

No information is provided to parents regarding what is taught in numeracy hour (not even clear if still in place to be honest). The small amount of work displayed in maths book for parent/ teacher evenings for both DDs has yet to include co-ordinate x/y graph work in Y2 (although one term is left for DD2).

Suspect your school may be more together (?ambitious) than our OFSTED rated 'good' school. (for which as many will know in terms of math curriculum I'm firmly of the opinion it's very definitely NOT).

PastSellByDate there is often a coordinate question in the KS1 tests so I would suggest most schools will have covered coordinates in Y2 if not before
www.suffolkmaths.co.uk/pages/Primary/New%20Primary%20Framework/Year%202/Pitch%20&%20expectations%20Year%202.pdf

Mrz, Thanks so much for the Suffolk Maths link - it helped me to find a related document which I once found by Googling but which I have never managed to retrieve...until now! Safely bookmarked now...thanks!