CLIL 4 MATHS in Secondary Education CyL

Shared by Francisca Arpa

This project is intended to be carried out jointly with the teacher of the bilingual section of physical education.

 

Olympic Measures

This problem invites students to engage with units of measurement and orders of magnitude, by presenting a variety of records and measurements from events at the Olympic Games. 

Some will be familiar to students, others may lend themselves to estimation or a little research.  Hand out this set of cards and invite students to work in pairs together:

Below are some interesting measurements and records from events at the Olympic Games. Unfortunately they have been muddled up. Can you cut out the cards and regroup them correctly?

If students are stuck, here are some key questions to help them:

Which quantities are likely to be whole numbers? Why?

Which quantities are lengths? Which are times? Which are speeds? Which are masses?

Which units might belong with the lengths... times... speeds... masses...?

Can you rank the different lengths... times... speeds... masses in order of magnitude?


Finish by bringing the whole class together to agree on a class ordering for the cards. Students will need to convince each other of their own ordering by explaining what they are certain of, and justifying their educated guesses.

The videos of impressive world record performances available on  https://listverse.com/2007/10/02/top-10-impressive-athletics-world-records/ might be of interest to students.


Invite students to do some research to create a set of similar cards of their own to swap with a friend.

To carry out this joint project, the following steps will be followed:

             - In physical education class a session will be dedicated to talk about the different Olympic sports and it will be proposed that in groups of four they make a power point about three Olympic sports, indicating the records achieved, they will have a period of 15 days to do it.

             - Once this activity is carried out in PE, the activity designed with the cards will be carried out in math class, it will be carried out in two or three sessions.

          - After completing the activity of the math class. In PE class students will watch the videos of impressive world record performances available on: 

https://listverse.com/2007/10/02/top-10-impressive-athletics-world-records/