Which of the Olympic sports do you want to watch?

Develop some understanding of the many Olympic sports and their various judging requirements.  Should the Olympics only include performances that can be objectively measured?

Greek gymnast, Eleftherios Petrounias	Canoe sprintist, Mark de Jonga	Wilmer Contreras, Equadorian weightlifter	Michael Phelps, USA swimmer
Ana Patricia Silva Ramos, Women’s Beach Volleyball	Canadian, Megan Lane and Caravella	Steele Johnson and David Boudia	Kenya’s Rugby Sevens player, Mary Musieka (right)

Print out copies of the Olympic schedule that we’ve compiled for your class.  OlympicSchedule.pdf

This schedule can help students understand when to expect coverage of events during the 16 days of the 2016 Olympic games along with having a list of events to use for calculations.

The activity is a discussion on how the various events are judged. Are winners determined strictly by measurements or are grace, audience rapport and style important? And if so, how are these subjective evaluations protected against bias?

You can lead your class through the discussion with this free movie.  You will have to pause the movie between each slide until you are ready to continue the discussion.  Or members can use our PowerPoint presentation below.

SummerOlympicsRio from YummyMath

CCSS: 6.RP.A, 7.RP.A, MP3, MP5

For members we have a PowerPoint presentation of the above movie (The PowerPoint is easier to control and has more interesting transitions) and solutions/teacher talk to fill in extra information that you might wish to have.

SummerOlympicsRio.pptx         OlympicSports-teacher-tips.pdf

Here’s another Olympics post: How high can a gymnastics score be?

from Yummy Math http://www.yummymath.com/2016/which-of-the-olympic-sports-do-you-want-to-watch/