Olympics Challenge

LI: to use the most efficient strategy to find the answers.

For Maths, we have been focusing on how to use an efficient strategy to solve an equation and how to check if our answer is correct. The questions we worked on for this task was: 'What was the gold medalists score?' and 'By how much did Nastia score over the bronze medalist?'

We solved these by first looking at the information we were given to solve the question: The Olympic sport of gymnastics is judged with a point system. Nastia Liukin, an uneven bar champion scored a disappointing 16.725 in Beijing putting her in second place. Her opponent beat her by 0.001 of a point. The bronze medalists score was 14.975.

To answer the first question, in the information we are given, it says that Nastia (being in second place) was beaten by her opponent by 0.001 of a poidavid is in the ghttont, which means that we have to add 0.001 (the gold medalists score difference) to 16.725 (Nastia's score) which equals 16.726. To answer the second question, we subtract 14.975 from 16.725 which equals 1.75.

I enjoyed this task because I was able to share my knowledge as well as increase what I know about using efficient strategies to solve maths equations as well as compehend the information I am given to convert it into an answer. In this session, I practiced proving how my answer is correct.