Join Billy Bug for five colourful coordinate maths games. Children can practise reading and plotting coordinates, drawing polygons, revealing mystery pictures, reflecting shapes and exploring translations on a coordinate grid.
Many teachers will remember the original Billy Bug coordinate game, where Billy's adventures were firmly based on Earth. This collection keeps the familiar grid-based thinking while adding creative shape challenges and opportunities to explore reflection and translation.
Guide Billy on his Galactic Quest for Grub, draw polygons in Plot the Shape and uncover familiar pictures such as houses in Cosmic Creations. Then plot shapes reflected in the x- and y-axes in Mirror Mission, or follow directions and column vectors to translate shapes in Translation Space Station.
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Read Coordinates
Help Billy Bug on his Galactic Quest for Grub by using coordinates to guide him to the correct position. A playful way to practise reading grid references accurately while completing Billy's space mission.
Play Galactic Quest
Draw Polygons
Use coordinates to draw five polygons, from triangles and quadrilaterals to pentagons and hexagons. Move Billy to each grid position and plot the points in sequence, choosing either the first quadrant or all four quadrants.
Plot the Shape
Reveal Mystery Pictures
Plot coordinates in sequence to reveal recognisable pictures, including a house, boat, fish and more. Choose from three collections and complete five mystery pictures in the first quadrant or across all four quadrants.
Create with Billy
Reflect Shapes
Plot the points of a shape reflected in the x-axis or y-axis, or try a mixture of both. Complete five mirror challenges, using Undo and Billy's feedback to correct any misplaced points.
Play Mirror Mission
Translate Shapes
Use the arrow controls to move the whole shadow shape to its correct position, then press Check. Complete five translations, choosing from one-direction, two-direction, mixed and column-vector missions.
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