Bolt triumphs again in the 100m Olympic sprint, clocking an Olympic record 9.63s, – 0.05s outside his world record. Below is a graph of the 100m with extrapolation of expected times in the future. Click here for more analysis of the 100m. Activity: how fast was Bolt’s 100m in kms/hr or miles/hr? Answer in the Post Support […]
Mathematician Reza Noubary recently calculated that “the ultimate time for [the] 100 meter dash is 9.44 seconds. But is he right? Read more of this BBC article here.
The Olympic Games is a great venue for statistical data (see earlier post). However, there is another easy, online way to get quick data from your class. It is called polleverywhere and is free to use. Click here for more details.
Without Mathematics there would be no Olympic Games – every event is based around time, distance, length, weight, scores or speed! Here is a great source for statistical information about the Olympic Games
Numbers that can form polygons are called polygonal numbers. For example, the square numbers 1, 4, 9, 16 and so on form a square. As shown below, it is easy to see that the 10th square number is a square with 10 rows and 10 columns. This means that the 10th square number is equal to […]
In a blog post, Microsoft employee David Gainer said that when computer users tried to get Excel 2007 to multiply some pairs of numbers and the result was 65,535, Excel would incorrectly display 100,000 as the answer. Gainer said Excel makes mistakes multiplying 77.1 by 850, 10.2 by 6,425 and 20.4 by 3,212.5, but the […]
