Length/distance

  • Home Time
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    Home time

    Age
    7 to 11
    Challenge level
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    Alice's mum needs to go to each child's house just once and then back home again. How many different routes are there? Use the information to find out how long each road is on the route she took.
  • Timber!
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    Timber!

    Age
    7 to 11
    Challenge level
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    How can the school caretaker be sure that the tree would miss the school buildings if it fell?
  • Now and Then
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    Now and then

    Age
    7 to 11
    Challenge level
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    Have a look at the results for some events at past Olympic Games. Can you use these to predict the results at the next Olympics?

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    Take your dog for a walk

    Age
    7 to 11
    Challenge level
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    Use the interactivity to move Pat. Can you reproduce the graphs and tell their story?

  • Practice Run
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    Practice run

    Age
    7 to 11
    Challenge level
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    Chandrika was practising a long distance run. Can you work out how long the race was from the information?
  • The hare and the tortoise
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    The hare and the tortoise

    Age
    7 to 11
    Challenge level
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    In this version of the story of the hare and the tortoise, the race is 10 kilometres long. Can you work out how long the hare sleeps for using the information given?
  • Walk and Ride
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    Walk and ride

    Age
    7 to 14
    Challenge level
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    How far have these students walked by the time the teacher's car reaches them after their bus broke down?
  • How far does it move?
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    How far does it move?

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
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    Experiment with the interactivity of "rolling" regular polygons, and explore how the different positions of the dot affects the distance it travels at each stage.

  • Place your orders
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    Place your orders

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
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    Can you rank these sets of quantities in order, from smallest to largest? Can you provide convincing evidence for your rankings?

  • Olympic Measures
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    Olympic measures

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
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    These Olympic quantities have been jumbled up! Can you put them back together again?