Georgia is participating in the Long Blast, one of the Soft Olympic activities we carried out in maths this week.
As part of celebrating the Olympics, we carried out some sporting activities in maths, in a rather different format. We had a range of adapted sports that suited being in the classroom and could be carried out in teams.
We participated in, and recorded the distances for the:
- Discus (throwing a sponge)
- Long Blast (blowing a ping pong ball to see how far we could be it in one breath)
- Shot put (throwing a cotton wool ball)
- Javelin (throwing a toothpick)
- Long Thump (how far you can flick a counter, Tiddly Winks style).
We recorded in whole metres and for some students, this was new learning.
We will be analysing our group and class results, using mean, mode, median and range.
The data will be graphed in various forms and compared between groups, as a statistical investigation.
An outcome of this will be to look at other Olympic sports which can be made into class activities for maths.
Lots of fun was had as well.
That's very nice idea of sharing the great achievements for the tourists.
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