Curling – Friction, score-keeping, trajectory and weirdness are the main concepts in this activity. Curling is not a well-understood sport but the science and strategy are easily understood and enjoyed.
Big Air Snowboarding
– Some of your students may be officianados of snowboarding. Using this activity could be an opportunity to let those students shine. We look at the orientation of regular and goofy snowboarders and how their tricks are described in rotation direction and degrees.
Cost of hosting the Olympic games – Hosting the Olympics sure does cost a lot. Why is that? How much money is $5 billion dollars? What is a cost overrun? Why would a country want to spend that much money to host and Olympic Game? Does a country recoup what they invest? Do you see any trends?
The LUGE – In this short activity we look at how important a luger’s starting speed is and try to figure out how they get to their extreme speeds.
Lighting the Olympic Torch – Let your students study the sunlight reflections and hypothesize why the focus of the mirror gets hot enough to light the torch.
This activity might be used for students who are not yet ready for the study of parabolas or extend this lesson and model to the study of parabolas and the parabola’s focus.
The Olympic Schedule – Wikipedia had this schedule of events. We think that there is a lot of information missing and apparent in this graphic. What can you tell, what would you like to see, and what would you like to know?
Scoring Ski Jumping – The scoring rubric for each of the Olympic events is intended to eliminate the possibility of scoring bias from the judges. Let your students learn more about the scoring of one event and decide whether it seems fair…
from Yummy Math https://www.yummymath.com/2022/winter-olympic-activities-7-activities/
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