You Reckon?

Table of Contents

1. You Reckon?: General Teaching Notes
2. Introduction
3. Lesson Blocks
   1. Heart Beat - Task
   2. Heart Beat - Teacher Notes
   3. Stop Thief Task
   4. Stop Thief - Teacher Notes
   5. Stop Thief - PowerPoint Presentation
   6. Games On / Standing Room Only - Tasks
   7. Games On / Standing Room Only - Teacher Notes
   8. Games On - Olympic Opening Ceremony (CD Only)
   9. Bio Fool - Task
   10. Bio Fool - Teacher Notes
   11. Bio Fool Fact Sheet
   12. Bio Fool - PowerPoint Presentation
   13. Splash Down - Task
   14. Splash Down - Teacher Notes
   15. Splash Down - PowerPoint Presentation
   16. Splash Down - Excel Data Files
4. Sprinklers
5. One Liners
6. Associated Software
7. Printable Material
8. Appendix A: Mapping Plausible Estimation onto the 2008 Programme of Study

Games On / Standing Room Only - Tasks

Games On

The organizers of the 2012 London Olympics need your help!

They want all the athletes to be present at the opening ceremony, in the centre of the athletics track.

Can everyone fit in?

Explain why or why not, in a letter.

• At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens 11,000 people from 296 countries took part. Assume the same number take part in 2012.
  
• The stadium has the dimensions shown on the diagram below [square sides are 10 metres].

Standing Room Only

Ron claims that the whole population of China could stand on the Isle of Wight.

The CIA World-FactBook web page gives the population of China to be :1,321,851,888.(July 2007 estimated.)

And Wikipedia.org gives the area of the Isle of Wight as: 380 km² (146.7 sq mi)

Is Ron's claim plausible?