When designing spaces for competitive sports events, care has to be taken to ensure that individual competitors are not advantaged or disadvantaged and that one sports site compares accurately with another. In the case of running tracks, this requires accurate measurement and precisecalculations to create appropriate staggers for longer runs. This topic gives the opportunity for accurate measurement, scale drawing and calculations involving.

Working with elite athletes means understanding how prowess in sport changes over time. The world record time provides a vital benchmark of performance against which all athletes may aspire.This resource gives opportunities to explore real data. Women?s marathon involves constructing a statistical chart whilst ratio and percentage are used in Record differences. Logical thinking is needed in World record match.

These activities are designed to give students an insight into the relative cost to the environment of travel and to highlight ways in which an individual, or family, can reduce their ?carbon footprint?. Both activities involve quite complex analysis of information, a variety of calculations and the need to handle a mixture of units, moving between grams, kilograms and tonnes.

Working in the tourist industry often requires good listening skills followed by careful planning and systematic thinking. This short resource simulates the problem solving required. The activities supports the development of personal, learning and thinking skills. These activities demand logical and multi-stage thinking.