Today we spent some time measuring out distances that we would see being used in the upcoming Olympics. For example 50m like in the swimming and 100m in the sprints. With all of us starting at the same point, Mrs.Kowalski asked us to walk to where we thought 50 metres would be. She then used the trundle wheel to tell us how far we had each walked and we had to record this figure and work out the difference between the actual and our estimate. We spent an hour trying this with different measurements. To our surprise, all of our estimates got better as we went along. We were also amazed to see how far 100m actually was and just how fast Usain Bolt must actually go! In the coming weeks we will run 100m and time ourselves to compare with Usain.
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