Archive for February, 2008

27 Feb

Shanghai, Melbourne, Barcelona!

Research and plan the finances for the team’s trip from Silverstone to one of the above Grand Prix venues. You need to update the figures from the Indianapolis Challenge brief. Use the Day Two links to help get the up-to-date prices.

27 Feb

The Bottom Line

Welcome back Year Five & Six! Today we are looking at MONEY, MONEY, MONEY!

13 Feb

McLaren’s Mobile Number Mayhem

Lewis Hamilton and his driver buddies are sponsored by Vodafone but they have a problem! They are always having to change their mobile phone numbers and need ones that are easy to remember – some seem to have a pattern about them!
His old number used to 44 2244668800
Let’s have a look at how we might [...]

13 Feb

Years One & Two

We welcome pupils from Years One and Two. I hope they are a creative bunch and good at working as a team!

07 Feb

Post-race thoughts…

The Year Three and Four children worked very well yesterday in their teams on some very tricky tasks.
In the first main session they looked at statistics to objectively decide who was the best Superbikes rider. It was brilliant to see how teams chose different variables to compile their ‘top ten’ lists and then present them [...]

06 Feb

What we need to find out and record… Silverstone Stock-taking!

What makes and models of car are used at Silverstone.
How many of each make and model are there?
What racing numbers used on each model of car. Are they the same as other models.
What is the most popular colour for the Silverstone cars?
Approximately how many tyres are stored in the tyre bay?
How could we check that [...]

06 Feb

Welcome to Year 3/4 Mathematicians!

It is great to have you on board today. This is where a funky photo will appear.

06 Feb

What do you think makes good teamwork?

Here is our list of top teamworking features:

Arguing all the time
Listening to each other.
Not being bossy
Communicating
Encouraging

06 Feb

Who is the best footballer?

Who you do think is the best footballer in the world?

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