The resources below are additional activities and ideas submitted by Henrico County math teachers and found on the web. Some of these are brief activities while others may be projects. Hopefully, these lessons will promote a friendly competition between students, classes, and schools while creating a meaningful learning experience for you and your students. Feel free to use, modify or adapt these lessons to review material or provide new instruction in your own classroom.

Lessons and ideas submitted:

• Olympic Record Sheet (doc) - Use this sheet to have your students track their scores in the 17 Olympic events on this site!
• Data Olympics (doc) - Four Summer Olympic events that your students can participate in to create data and compute mean, median, mode and graphs.
• Standard Deviation (doc) - Standard deviation's role in the decathalon. In the Statistics/Discrete Math textbook: Stats, Modeling the World (p, 102), the Olympics uses an example on standard deviation and z scores as they discuss the heptathlon and how you determine a winner.
• Olympic Assessment project (doc) - Determine whether women will ever be faster than men at the Olympics.
• Proportion Race (doc) - Use this competitive activity to promote students working together to complete problems.
• Statistics (pdf) - students collect Olympic statistics from a timed event of their choice and determine various statistics.
• Sports Talk. Assign each student, or a pair of students, to track each of the 15 winter Olympic Sports. They can learn about the sport, it competitors, how the sport is judged, terminology related to it, and more and keep the class informed during the Games. Good basic sources of information include Vancouver 2010 Olympics (click on any of the 15 sport icons found at the top of the page) and NBC 2010 Olympics: Sports. If students write reports about their sports, they might use the 2010 Olympic pictograms as their report covers. In addition, you might compile reports to create a class book about Olympic sports or a Web site, like this Winter Olympic Sports site created by students in Sleepy Hollow, New York.
• Tracking the Medals Race. Have each student track the medal results for a different country. Create a chart and update it daily so that in the end you have a chart that looks like this 2006 Final Medal Standings chart.
• Olympic Trivia Challenge - Students find fascinating facts about the Summer Olympic Games and Olympic history.
• Math (for older students). Hand out copies of Medal Math printable work sheet. The Teaching Master provides word problem practice in adding decimals and other math concepts -- all related, of course, to the Winter Olympics.
  ANSWER KEY: 1. Syd, Peter, Hans; 2. Shelley, Christie, Annlee; 3. Michela Fijini, 13 seconds.
• The following online lessons include some that relate to previous Olympic Games but creative teachers will be able to adapt those activities to the games at Vancouver.
  • Winter Olympics -- Vancouver: Cyberhunt
  • Going for the Gold (Olympic WebQuest)
  • Winter Olympic Games Project
• In the new Glencoe materials for course 2.  Chapter 4 resource book, LEsson 4-1, page 187 has olympic problems