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For this activity you need lots of old newspapers, and some sticky tape.
Make 1 metre length sticks using newspaper.
Tightly roll 8 large sheets of newspaper, 4 and 4 placed as in the photograph, so that the length of the stick when the paper is […]
Let’s walk from here to that tree,
How many paces will that be?
Spread your fingers as wide as you can,
What you have now is called a hand span .
A hand span can help you to find out how big
Is the height of a cow, a […]
The graph shows the distance along a race track for two racing cars as they approach a bend in a race. Copy the table below, take readings from the graph and fill in the table for the first 10 seconds.
How far does each car go in the 3rd second? How far […]
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Do human beings live for as long as a million hours?
If you have been alive for a million seconds, how many birthdays have you had?
What year was it one billion minutes ago?
How long would it take to count to a million […]
The Towns A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H all lie on the same straight road.
The table shows the distances between pairs of towns.
For example, D is 19 km from G.
Fill in the distances between all the other towns in the table.
Click here to download the […]
Two flagpoles are 30 metres apart. One has height 10 m and the other has height 15 m. Two tight ropes connect the top of each pole to the foot of the other.
How high do the two ropes intersect above the ground?
How many different methods can you find to solve this problem?
What […]
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