One day five small animals in my garden were going to have a
sports day. They decided to have a swimming race, a running
race, a high jump and a long jump. This problem is intended to
get children to look really hard at something they will see many
times in the next few months. Can you see who the gold medal
winner is? What about the silver medal winner and the bronze
medal winner? This problem explores the shapes and symmetries in
some national flags. This problem explores the range of events
in a sports day and which ones are the most popular and attract
the most entries. Looking at the 2008 Olympic Medal table, can
you see how the data is organised? Could the results be
presented differently to give another nation the top place?
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? 95% of people in Britain should live within
10 miles of the route of the Olympic Torch tour. Is this true?
The triathlon is a physical