MISSIO

5.6 The Next O’Chimpic Games?

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MATHEMATICAL CONTENT
• Distance (kilometres and miles) • Time (24-hour clock)
• Multiplication and division • Calculating time intervals
• Counting and adding fractions • 2-D shapes
• Multiplying fractions • Angles

TEACHING NOTES
TM The children are first required to use the relationship between miles and kilometres to
convert the length of the London Marathon from 26.2 miles to kilometres. Look for the
strategies the children use to first divide by 5 and then multiply by 8. Do they divide by
10 mentally and then double to help divide by 5?
What strategies do they use to multiply 5.24 × 8? Do they recognise that 0.24 is nearly
a quarter?
Canary Wharf is reached after 16 miles in the race. The children must find out how far
Gammon is behind Hailey at this point using the information given. Look for children’s
fluency when counting in steps of 35 mile and 38 mile or multiplying 35 by a number (scale
factor) greater than 16 to get closer to the target of 16 miles, e.g. 35 miles × 20 = 605 miles
= 12 miles so more steps of 35 mile are needed for the extra 4 miles, etc.
Also look for children who recognise that only a step of 25 mile is needed for Hailey to
reach 16 miles from 15 35 (which is 26 steps of 35 mile) so Gammon’s final step is only 28
mile. Each only needs 23 of their final step, i.e. 23 of 35 and 23 of 38 .

MM The children must first make sense of the ‘Real Time Pace Guide’ that shows the
expected times for runners of different abilities. Times are shown using the 24-hour
clock. They are required to compare the time that Hailey took to reach 18 miles with
the time for the Elite Women and to find the average time it takes these runners to
complete each mile.
Look for the strategies the children use to multiply and divide times using efficient
methods, and calculate time intervals.

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TEACHING NOTES
This mission requires the children to investigate tessellations drawing on
DV FILES
knowledge of 2-D shapes and angles. They must identify the only three regular
shapes that create a true tessellation and explain why this may be the case.
They go on to explore the sizes of other angles that
are created by the gaps when other regular shapes are 135°
67.5°
tessellated. Look for children who use knowledge of the
67.5°
sum of the internal angles of a quadrilateral and a 45°
67.5°
pentagon to help them.
The children may need to find out more about the sum
of the internal angles of the octagon and nonagon to
Sum of internal angles
help them. Remember that creating triangles around of an octagon = 135° × 8
the centre point is a useful method.

2) 10:51 reach 18 miles. This is 1 hr 36 minutes

from start.
ANSWERS 96 minutes ÷ 18 = 5.33 minutes.
3) 94 minutes
TM
DV FILES
1) 41.92 km
1) Equilateral
2) 6 miles behind triangle, a tessellation of
3 square and equilateral triangles
Hailey 5 1 15 1 45 2 25 3 6 12 15 15 35 16
hexagon. All
3 6
Gammon 1 18 1 48 1 78 3 68 7 74 9 38 9 68 10 have internal
8 8 a tessellation of
Scale angles that squares
1 2 3 4 5 10 20 25 26 26 24
factor are factors of
360° so they
Or a tessellation of
meet at a
Scale factor from 35 mile to 16 miles = 26 23 point leaving regular hexagons
Using the same scale factor: 38 × 26 23 = 10 no gaps.
Or another scale factor example using a 2) Interior angles of a pentagon sum to 540°
4-cell diagram Angles at a point sum to 360° so missing
obtuse angles are each 144°.
Hailey Gammon
Missing acute angles can be calculated as
3 mile 3 mile (360° – 288°) ÷ 2 = 36°
5 8 Or simply 12 of 360° – 144°
× 26 23
We can also place another pentagon in
the pattern at the top or bottom of this
16 miles 10 miles arrangement and then look at angles at a point
to identify the size of the acute angle.
3)
MM
135°
108° 108°
144°
144°

135°
1) Hailey takes 148 minutes 30 seconds to reach 108° 108°

mile 18.
She started the race at 10:00 so will reach mile 140°
80° 140°
18 at 12:28 30 80° 140°
The Elite Women pass this marker 1 hr 37 140°

minutes and 30 seconds earlier

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