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Commonwealth Games Medal Gaps

A fictional Commonwealth Games athletics results board is shown below. Use the results to investigate how subtraction reveals the gaps between medals and between events. Results are in metres (m). Line up decimal points when subtracting, and include units in your answers.

Results board

All results are fictional and created for this worksheet.

Event and division

Gold

Silver

Bronze

Men’s javelin

82.46

80.91

78.38

Women’s javelin

63.72

61.85

59.94

Men’s high jump

2.34

2.30

2.27

Women’s high jump

1.98

1.95

1.91

Read the gaps

For medal gaps, subtract the lower-placed result from the higher-placed result. For comparison questions, check which quantity is being compared before subtracting.

1.In the men’s javelin, calculate the gap between gold and silver, then the gap between silver and bronze. Show each subtraction.

2.Which men’s javelin medal gap is larger: gold to silver or silver to bronze? By how many metres is it larger?

3.Calculate the two women’s javelin medal gaps: gold to silver and silver to bronze. Which gap is smaller?

4.A commentator says, “The women’s javelin gold medal result was 3.78 m farther than the men’s gold result.” Check the claim by subtracting the two gold results. Is the claim correct? Explain using the direction of the difference.

5.Find the difference between the men’s and women’s javelin results for silver, then for bronze. Are the two differences equal?

Compare events and spot the error

High jump and javelin results use the same unit, but represent different events. Compare results only when the question asks you to; a difference is not automatically a measure of performance.

6.For the men’s high jump, calculate the gold-to-silver gap and the silver-to-bronze gap. Which is greater, and by how much?

7.For the women’s high jump, calculate the gap from gold to bronze. Then compare it with the men’s gold-to-bronze gap. How much larger is one gap than the other?

8.A results editor accidentally writes 61.85 m − 63.72 m for the women’s javelin gold-to-silver gap. Calculate this subtraction as written, then state the medal gap as a positive difference and explain the correction.

9.The athletics team has 5.00 m of marking tape. They use 1.87 m to mark the women’s javelin gold-to-silver gap. How much tape remains? Write an equation and your answer with units.

10.Choose one medal gap from the results board. Write a short explanation of what the subtraction tells you, including the event, medal positions and units.

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