Olympics Math
The Winter Olympiad continues in Vancouver, Canada. Sports is always a great tool to get kids interested in math, and to provide them with real world applications for mathematical thinking and processes.
Some excellent tools to use follow:
Winter Olympics Graphing
Erica Loop's blog provides a good outline to get kids to create bar graphs, histograms, and other visual representations of Olympic results.
Use the Vancouver Olympics' web-site for data.
For example, here's the Olympics medal count as of today:
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Thursday, February 18, 2010
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