Weather Maths

A Maths Starter of The Day

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Australia
1. Which city is currently the warmest?

3. What is the range of temperatures?

5. What is the time difference between Birmingham and Bangkok.

7. It takes 11 hours to fly from Bangkok to Birmingham. If you take off at midday from Bangkok, what time will you arrive in Birmingham (local time)?

2. What is the mean (average) temperature of these four cities?

4. Estimate the temperatures inside and outside your classroom right now.

6. What will be the time in Boston when it is half past midnight in Brisbane?

8. Can you guess which two cities in the world have the biggest time difference?

 

 

 

 

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  • M Darwin, The McAuley Catholic High School
  • Monday, October 22, 2007
  • "Live data the numbers change too quickly even though they repeat, it would be better if they were on longer - about 8 to 10 seconds."
  • F. Ricciardi, The Charter School, South London
  • Wednesday, November 28, 2007
  • "I agree numbers change a too quickly. Not even enough time for them to jot them down before they change. Great idea though!!"
  • Colin MacKay., Carnoustie High School.
  • Friday, March 27, 2009
  • "This was fun, challenging, confusing, and a good mixture of questions, and just as well it was a 24hour clock."
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  • Wednesday, March 24, 2010
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  • Ole And Daisy, Year 6, Beckley School
  • Monday, March 28, 2011
  • "We think Las Vegas and Delhi have the biggest time gap."

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Answers

The temperature and times given are current (live) data so we are unable to provide answers to all of the questions.

1. Which city is currently the warmest? Probably Bangkok but it depends on the current conditions.

3. What is the range of temperatures? Take the coldest temperature from the warmest.

5. What is the time difference between Birmingham and Bangkok. Seven hours in the winter and six hours in the summer (daylight saving time)

7. It takes 11 hours to fly from Bangkok to Birmingham. If you take off at midday from Bangkok, what time will you arrive in Birmingham (local time)? 4pm. Though there is currently no direct flight from Bangkok to Birmingham!

 2. What is the mean (average) temperature of these four cities? Add up the temperatures then divide by four.

4. Estimate the temperatures inside and outside your classroom right now. The inside temperature is probably about 21o C (if you are feeling comfortable).

6. What will be the time in Boston when it is half past midnight in Brisbane? 09:30 though this might be affected at different times of the year by daylight saving time. Does anyone know?

8. Can you guess which two cities in the world have the biggest time difference? Depending on the definition of a city! Let us know what you think here.

Computer Teacher, do your students have access to computers?
Do you have "Laptops in Lessons"?

Whether your students each have a TabletPC or share a desktop PC, this activity lends itself to eLearning (Engaged Learning).

Laptop

Here is the URL which will take them to a concise version of this page.

Transum.org/go/?Start=March27

There are now extensive weather records for recent years available on the Internet. Students could find this data, organise it, apply their knowledge of probability and produce their own weather forecast for the next week.

As an example, this page contains raw CSV formatted weather logs for each month of data collected from the Fife Weather station. CSV files can be easily opened in popular spreadsheet packages such as Microsoft Excel or free Office suites such as OpenOffice.

The Weatherunderground website also provides historical data in CSV format. Here's today's weather data for Dudley. Scroll down the page to find the link to the CSV file.