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Isaac Anoom looks at the maths involved in travelling. Maths expert Isaac Anoom covers speed, time, petrol consumption and traffic flow, when he looks at using different kinds of transport to get from London to Plymouth.

Example of numeracy related to travel.

"Ten maths sequences filmed during a cricket match. Cricket is a game based on numbers and maths, offering questions about how fast a ball travels, how high, what the score is, and why cricket pitches are often oval."

An example of numeracy related to the game of cricket.

A video for educational purposes

This is an educational video aiming to teach the topic of 'how to use a street directory'. This video focuses on the numeracy aspects of grid referencing and data representation. This is a video aiming for Primary School students (Year 5).

This numeracy stimulus video explores the answers to every child's problem, and indeed their parent's, of the amount of time it takes to arrive at a destination when driving. Considering the variables of speed and distance, what is the amount of time for our travellers to arrive at their destination?

This video is a great resource for an upper primary classroom and provides opportunities for critical thinking and offers ideas for extension activities.