Bearings

Links

http://math.rice.edu/~lanius/pres/map/
Lesson ideas, activities and links about the mathematics of cartography. The focus is on maps, scale, latitude and longitude, but some of the material could be used to extend the topic of bearings.

www.nmm.ac.uk/
Information about navigation, surveying and map-making, which have been major stimuli for the development of mathematics (particularly geometry and trigonometry) since the earliest civilisations.