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Maths for Champions

Maths for Champions

Are you looking forward to the Rio Olympics? To get you in the mood, we have chosen some of our favourite maths activities about running fast, jumping high, throwing far and striving to be the best!

Medal Muddle 
Age 11 to 14
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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?

Olympic Records 
Age 11 to 14
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Can you deduce which Olympic athletics events are represented by the graphs?

Who's the Best? 
Age 11 to 14
Challenge Level Yellow starYellow star

Which countries have the most naturally athletic populations?

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

Charting Success 
Age 11 to 16
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Can you make sense of the charts and diagrams that are created and used by sports competitors, trainers and statisticians?

Speed-time Problems at the Olympics 
Age 14 to 16
Challenge Level Yellow star

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to race against Usain Bolt?

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The NRICH Project aims to enrich the mathematical experiences of all learners. To support this aim, members of the NRICH team work in a wide range of capacities, including providing professional development for teachers wishing to embed rich mathematical tasks into everyday classroom practice.

NRICH is part of the family of activities in the Millennium Mathematics Project.

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