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Olympic Maths

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!

Half Time
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Half Time

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5 to 11
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What could the half time scores have been in these Olympic hockey matches?
Going for Gold
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Going for Gold

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7 to 11
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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?

Olympic Starters
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Olympic Starters

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7 to 11
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Look at some of the results from the Olympic Games in the past. How do you compare if you try some similar activities?

Match the Matches
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Match the Matches

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7 to 11
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Decide which charts and graphs represent the number of goals two football teams scored in fifteen matches.
Now and Then
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Now and Then

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7 to 11
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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?

Olympic Turns
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Olympic Turns

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7 to 11
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This task looks at the different turns involved in different Olympic sports as a way of exploring the mathematics of turns and angles.

Olympic Cards
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Olympic Cards

Design your own scoring system and play Trumps with these Olympic Sport cards.
Games from around the world
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Games from around the world

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5 to 11
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Here are a collection of games from around the world to try during the holidays or the last few weeks of term.
Sports Equipment
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Sports Equipment

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7 to 11
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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?
National Flags
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National Flags

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7 to 11
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This problem explores the shapes and symmetries in some national flags.