Air race touches down
This article reports on the London-to-Sydney Centenary Air Race
held during the months of March and April 2001. While the article
only gives a few pieces of data, students are able to gain a greater
understanding of the data presented by using visual tools such
as maps to give context to the information given. Students should
be able to transfer this understanding further to plan another
race using the same data given in the article. The article can
lead itself to both further studies in mathematics and other learning
areas, through key ideas such as why particular flight paths are
chosen by airlines, why certain countries cannot be flown over
or used as stopovers, world time zones, and the international
date line, to give just a few examples.
(Written by Matt Groves, BTeach student, University of Tasmania,
2001)
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