On the weekend Mr Grant saw our measurement blog and set our class a challenge! You may or may not know this but, Mr Grant is a big fan of football and even better he is a Power supporter (Go Power!!). Now because he enjoys football he wanted to make sure that the distance between our AFL football goals/point posts on our school oval are exactly the same so it is fair for both teams when playing.
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Firstly, we did a bit of research to find out the length of the goals/point posts. We searched Google and discovered the distance of the goal/point posts are 6.4metres in length.
Here we are… ready to measure!!
Next, we set out to the oval for our challenge and took 5 metre rulers with us. We measured the posts and they were pretty perfect!! One of the goal posts measured 10 centimetres short, however this could be due to the fact that there was a slight dip in the ground.
Overall, students were keen and excited to do this challenge. Thanks Mr Grant, we all look forward to more maths challenges in the future!
How clever all are! I can see that you used metre rulers and trundle wheels. How accurate do you think the distance between the posts needs to be. Do you think it would make a difference to the result of a football game if one end had a bigger space between the goal posts than the other end? Does the wind make a difference to the direction and angle the football goes when it is kicked for goal? If it does how do you know that?
Dear Miss M I found the book week very fun . I liked your costume it looked very nice.
Hi Mr Grant,
Thank you for your lovely challenge and I enjoyed it.
From Angela
Dear Mr Grant,
I enjoyed doing the maths challenge it was fun and challenging! It would be good if we could do it again.
Hi Mr Grant,
Thank you for the great measurement challenge. From Angela
Dear Miss M when we did the fire picture I felt very dizzy but it was very fun hope you had a great time.
Dear miss M, I’m glad we firgured out mr. Grants challenge we all had fun put down our rulers and firgured it out