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This is our secondary collection of favourite mathematics and sport materials.
These Olympic quantities have been jumbled up! Can you put them back together again?
This task looks at the different turns involved in different Olympic sports as a way of exploring the mathematics of turns and angles.
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.
Look at some of the results from the Olympic Games in the past. How do you compare if you try some similar activities?
Looking at the 2012 Olympic Medal table, can you see how the data is organised? Could the results be presented differently to give another nation the top place?
This problem explores the shapes and symmetries in some national flags.
Can you deduce which Olympic athletics events are represented by the graphs?
What could the half time scores have been in these Olympic hockey matches?
Which countries have the most naturally athletic populations?
Decide which charts and graphs represent the number of goals two football teams scored in fifteen matches.
Design your own scoring system and play Trumps with these Olympic Sport cards.
Can you use your powers of logic and deduction to work out the missing information in these sporty situations?
How can people be divided into groups fairly for events in the Paralympics, for school sports days, or for subject sets?
In this article, Alan Parr shares his experiences of the motivating effect sport can have on the learning of mathematics.
Fancy a game of cricket? Here is a mathematical version you can play indoors without breaking any windows.
If these balls are put on a line with each ball touching the one in front and the one behind, which arrangement makes the shortest line of balls?
This is our collection of favourite mathematics and sport materials.
Scheduling games is a little more challenging than one might desire. Here are some tournament formats that sport schedulers use.
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?