Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games (secondary)
Celebrate the 2024 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games with these classroom resources.
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Physics in Sport: Gymnastics
The challenge in this activity is to construct a landing mat capable of dissipating the kinetic energy of a marble dropped onto it, but also being firm enough for the marble not to bounce off. Students are given different materials to trial as a landing mat and must experiment to discover which material is best...
Rankings in Sport
How performance is ranked in sport is the focus of this resource from the Centre for Innovation in Mathematics Teaching. Ranking plays a vital role in many sports, providing evidence for sponsors that a particular player, or team, is worth investment. Specific examples from cricket are provided and students learn...
Debate kit - drugs in sport
Doping in sport usually means the use of performance-enhancing drugs, but is can also mean techniques like ‘blood-doping’. This debating kit explores the ethical issues around the use of drugs in sport such as possible harm to the athlete and unfairness. Role play gives students a chance to explore the different...
Representing: road race
This problem solving resource is intended to help students with recognizing and using proportional relationships, including through the use of graphs
Students are given information about a road race. They are presented with a map and information about the speeds of two runners. The race consists of four laps...