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Olympic Records

Stage: 3 Challenge Level:

Can you deduce which Olympic athletics events are represented by the graphs?

Who's the Best?

Stage: 3 and 4 Challenge Level:

Which countries have the most naturally athletic populations?

Half Time

Stage: 1 and 2 Challenge Level:

What could the half time scores have been in these Olympic hockey matches?

Nutrition and Cycling

Stage: 3 and 4 Challenge Level:

Andy wants to cycle from Land's End to John o'Groats. Will he be able to eat enough to keep him going?

Decathlon: the Art of Scoring Points

Stage: 3, 4 and 5

How do decisions about scoring affect who wins a combined event such as the decathlon?

Olympic Measures

Stage: 3 Challenge Level:

These Olympic quantities have been jumbled up! Can you put them back together again?

Weekly Challenge 20: the Olympic LOGO

Stage: 3, 4 and 5 Short Challenge Level:

A weekly challenge concerning drawing shapes algorithmically.

Olympic Cards

Stage: 1 and 2 Challenge Level:

Design your own scoring system and play Trumps with these Olympic Sport cards.

Olympic Logic

Stage: 3 and 4 Challenge Level:

Can you use your powers of logic and deduction to work out the missing information in these sporty situations?

Now and Then

Stage: 2 Challenge Level:

Look at the changes in results on some of the athletics track events at the Olympic Games in 1908 and 1948. Compare the results for 2012.

Sport Collection

Stage: 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 Challenge Level:

This is our collection of favourite mathematics and sport materials.

Medal Muddle

Stage: 3 Challenge Level:

Countries from across the world competed in a sports tournament. Can you devise an efficient strategy to work out the order in which they finished?

Who's the Winner?

Stage: 3 Challenge Level:

When two closely matched teams play each other, what is the most likely result?

Performing Beyond Expectations - Using Sport to Motivate Students in Mathematics Lessons

Stage: 2, 3 and 4

In this article, Alan Parr shares his experiences of the motivating effect sport can have on the learning of mathematics.

Olympic Turns

Stage: 2 Challenge Level:

This task looks at the different turns involved in different Olympic sports as a way of exploring the mathematics of turns and angles.

Olympic Starters

Stage: 2 Challenge Level:

Look at some of the results from the Olympic Games in the past. How do you compare if you try some similar activities?