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Maths
Maths Challenge
Gold
Stefano Catalano
Thomas Dutton
Michael Flanagan
Flynn Milton
Joe Pratt-Johns
Luke Watson
Silver
Benjamin Baber-Hale
Felix Byng
Shemaya Hurd-Thomas
Thomas Ingram
Megan Isaaks
Thomas Kershaw
Ethan Merrington-Pink
Huw Paige
Laurie Plumb
Charlotte Puddicombe
Rowan Robinson
Karli Rose
Daniel Tisdall
Callum Toull
Kurt Ventry
Arthur White
Bronze
Omar Abakais
Joe Allison
Adam Backhouse
Josie Baker
Oscar Biggins
Eliza Boyacigiller
James Capel
Danny Cleave
Jonty Coles
Luke Downing
Emily Dressler
Sam Eaton
Jessica Ellis
Max Graham
Louis Guy
Thomas Haggerty
Zak Harding
Luke Moore
Joseph Peakman
Mia Poore
Hannah Souch
Jamie Stacey
Hannah Sutton
Owen Trimming
Ollie Tysoe
Saffron Way
The Right Angle
The news you want – the way you want it
Thursday 18 February 2016
The Sweet Investigation
What is the most popular colour in a packet of
sweets?
This is the question my year 8X2 class
wanted to answer.
We each decided on a personal hypothesis, then
developed a class hypothesis :- Orange will be the
most popular colour in our sweets.
The class brought in various packets of sweets to
conduct the experiment. They emptied out their
sweets, counted them then grouped them into
colours. Some of the class chose to represent their
data by making a Bar Graph using their sweets; some
chose to make a Pie Chart. They found the modal
colour and saw if their original hypothesis was true.
We then compared all the class data to see if the class hypothesis was true...it wasn't...yellow
was the most popular colour.
Terri Ridings, Maths teacher
Students' thoughts
The investigation was good because it
was fun and yet still taught us about Pie
Charts and Bar Graphs. The best bit was
that at the end of the investigation, we
got to eat our sweets. It was good to be
able to actually use something that was
in front of you other than a worksheet
or a book.
DJ
I really enjoyed the hands-on approach,
moving my sweets around to create the
different graphs
BS
This was a fun lesson and I now
understand how to draw a Pie Chart
AN and MR
Our Graphs and Charts
These are examples of our
bar graphs, using our sweets.
Here are some
examples of our
Pie Charts with
our workings for
the angles of our
charts
The UK Mathematics Trust (UKMT) is
a registered charity whose aim is to
advance the education of children
and young people in mathematics.
They organise national Mathematics competitions
and other Mathematical enrichment activities for
11-18 year old UK school pupils.
Last academic year over 600,000 pupils from over
4,000 schools took part in the three individual
challenges - the UK's biggest national Maths
competitions.
