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Race Against Time Worksheet

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🏁 Race Against Time Worksheet

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⏱️ Part 1: Station Data Recording

At each station, record your team's estimated time, actual time, and calculate the difference. Show all working!

Station 1: The Human Stopwatch 👀

Target: 10 seconds  |  Estimated: _______ sec  |  Actual: _______ sec  |  Difference: _______ sec

Target: 30 seconds  |  Estimated: _______ sec  |  Actual: _______ sec  |  Difference: _______ sec

Target: 1 minute  |  Estimated: _______ sec  |  Actual: _______ sec  |  Difference: _______ sec

Total difference across all 3 targets: _______ seconds

Station 2: Speed Packing Challenge 📦

Fastest time: _______ sec  |  Slowest time: _______ sec  |  Difference: _______ sec

Station 3: Dice Dash 🎲

Player 1 time to reach 50/100: _______ sec  |  Player 2 time: _______ sec

Average time = (Player 1 + Player 2) ÷ 2 = ( _______ + _______ ) ÷ 2 = _______ sec

Station 4: Chair Relay 🪑

Estimated time: _______ sec  |  Round 1 actual: _______ sec  |  Round 2 actual: _______ sec

Did your time improve?   By how many seconds? _______

Station 5: Cup Pyramid Race 🏆

Attempt 1: _______ sec  |  Attempt 2: _______ sec  |  Difference: _______ sec

Average of both attempts: ( _______ + _______ ) ÷ 2 = _______ sec

🧮 Part 2: Maths Challenge — Crunch the Numbers!

Use your data from Part 1 to answer these questions. Show your working clearly.

1. Add up all five of your team's actual times (one per station). What is your team's total time across all stations?
2. Which station had the biggest difference between your estimate and actual time? How do you know?
3. Calculate your team's average time across all five stations. (Total time ÷ 5)

Total time: _______ sec  ÷  5 = _______ sec (average)

4. At Station 4 (Chair Relay), your team estimated 45 seconds but actually took 62 seconds. How many seconds over your estimate were you?

7 seconds

17 seconds

27 seconds

107 seconds

5. Three teams recorded these times at the Cup Pyramid station: Team A = 38 sec, Team B = 42 sec, Team C = 29 sec. What is the average time for these three teams?

💬 Part 3: Reflect and Improve

Think carefully about your team's performance. Answer honestly — there are no wrong answers here!

6. Which station did your team perform best at? What made you successful?
7. Which station was most challenging? What would you do differently next time?
8. Check ALL the teamwork strategies your team used today:

We communicated clearly with each other

We encouraged each other when things got tough

We shared roles fairly

We used a strategy to improve our second attempt

We recorded our data accurately

9. 🌟 Team Motto: Write one sentence that describes how your team worked together today. Make it something you could use as a team chant!

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