To celebrate the 2016 Olympic Games, we have brought together these sports-linked challenges for you to try.
Use your reasoning skills to solve these sporty tasks. You will even need to set up your own Olympics running and jumping events for one of them!
Use your reasoning skills to solve these sporty tasks. You will even need to set up your own Olympics running and jumping events for one of them!
problem
Half time
Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
What could the half time scores have been in these Olympic hockey matches?
problem
Going for gold
Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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?
problem
Olympic starters
Age
7 to 11
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?
problem
Match the matches
Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
Decide which charts and graphs represent the number of goals two football teams scored in fifteen matches.
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Now and then
Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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?
problem
Olympic turns
Age
7 to 11
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.
game
Olympic cards
Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
Design your own scoring system and play Trumps with these Olympic Sport cards.
list
Games from around the world
Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
Here are a collection of games from around the world to try during the holidays or the last few weeks of term.
problem
Sports equipment
Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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?
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National flags
Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
This problem explores the shapes and symmetries in some national flags.