Olympic Cards
Here is some information about two Olympic athletes who have won gold medals:
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You will find a full set of 24 cards with information about 24 different medal winners on these cards. You can print them out and cut them out to play a game with your friends by downloading here .doc .pdf
If you're not sure how to play see here.
You can decide what value to give to the different items that go with each athlete and that may change the winning cards.
How important is the date that the athlete won their medals?
How might you deal with the information about the nationality of the athlete?
How is it shown on the cards?
Photograph acknowledgements
Olympic Cards
Here is some information about $2$ Olympic athletes who have won gold medals:
Image
You will find a full set of $24$ cards with information about $24$ different medal winners on these cards. You can print them out and cut them out to play a game with your friends by downloading these sheets.
If you're not sure how to play see here.
You can decide what value to give to the different items that go with each athlete and that may change the winning cards.
How important is the date that the athlete won their medals?
How might you deal with the information about the nationality of the athlete?
How is it shown on the cards?
Photograph acknowledgements
Why do this problem?
Possible approach
The pupils need to decide how they rate the value of the flags for each of the countries involved.
You may decide that the children should find out what countries the athletes come from or you may provide them with that information from here. They may decide that the information about the country of origin isn't relevant to the scoring of the game. They may decide that the most recent
results score higher than older results but the discussion will support them in interrogating the data available.
Just in case you or your pupils do not know how to play the game then here are some instructions:
- Any number of pupils can play.
- Deal out the cards.
- Pupils hold their cards so that others cannot see them but in a stack so that they can only see their top card.
- The pupil who starts chooses one piece of information from their top card.
- The other pupils read out the same piece of information from their top card.
- The pupils with the best (most, highest . . . etc) card wins and gains all those top cards from the other pupils and places them at the bottom of their own stack.
- That winner starts the next round.
Key questions
What further information would be good to use?
Possible support
If the children find it difficult to work with all the information on the cards, they could focus on one aspect at a time.Possible extension
Photographic Acknowledgements: