Welcome to our Maths trail around the Coventry Transport Museum.

The museum is a fascinating place to visit and has a lot of opportunities to see how engineers and industrialists have shaped the engineering heritage in this area.

To complete this challenge you need to follow the route of the exhibition (turn left when you get through reception). The questions need you to think about a range of maths skills and will demonstrate a little of how maths applies to everyday things.

Remember that you are representing the school and bad behaviour will not be tolerated. We must show respect to other pupils and members of the public.

We hope you enjoy your time at the museum and remember that your team must complete all of the questions before the finishing time. Your answers should be written on the sheet.

Trail start time ____________________

Lunch time ____________________

Trail finish time (meet in reception) ____________________

If you need help at any time, ask a teacher or ask for the course leader at reception.

Name:

1. Estimate how many times the front wheel must rotate for the back wheel to make 1 full rotation?

2. At what angle will the bus fall over?

3. How far can the bus go on 5 gallons of fuel?

4. What did one double decker Maudslay bus cost in 1913?

5. A worker needs to spend £5 per month on food and £20 per month on rent. He saves the rest of his earnings towards a 1910 Maudlsay 32hp Tourer. How long will he have to save to afford it?

6. Today, a Ford Fiesta costs £10,000. The worker earns £25,000. Rent cost £650 per month and food costs £200 per month. How long would the worker have to save to afford a Fiesta?What do you think about your results?

7. Walk through the doors and this bike is on the left by the white door. Estimate the circumference of the big wheel and the small wheel.

8. How many gallons of water were used to put out the fire at Chelmsford factory?

9. How much money would you need to buy a pestle & mortar and an egg timer from the Ironmongers? (Written shillings/pence, 1 shilling = 12p)

10. What were the net number of hours worked last week?(Total hours = net hours + lost time hours)

11. Find and name five different 2D and five 3D shapes on the fire engine.

2D 3D1 12 23 34 45 5

12. What’s the highest scoring word you can make from the Scrabble letters in the caravan?

13. If Coventry produced 5,336,475 cars, what was the total number of cars produced in the UK between 1951 and 1971?

14. How far is it to New York?

15. What is the maximum speed of Thrust SSC in miles per hour AND metres per second?

______________________ m.p.h

______________________ m/s

16. Pick a car from one of the cabinets in the centre of the room and draw a sketch of the plan view.

17. If the pedals rotate at 60 rpm (revolutions per minute), how fast does that back wheel rotate?

(Gear ratios are on the information board)

18. What are your potential winnings if you put a £6 bet on the Penny Farthing?

19. Fast car room – Pick 5 cars from the room and calculate their average top speed. Will you use mean, median or mode to do this?

20. The top speed of a C5 is 15mph. To travel 30 miles how much earlier would the C5 need to set out than the Thrust SSC to arrive at the same time?

Well done, that’s all of the questions answered. Please return this form to the course leader.

Hazards Identified and Risks Arising

Persons at Risk How is the risk controlled? What further controls are needed?

Person responsible for controls Review date and revisions made

Group risksPotential of losing students

All students Frequent registers and head counts. Attach a teacher to each group.Meet for lunch to check everyone is still there.Students to wear School uniform so that they can be easily identified.Have an agreed meeting point for students to use if they got lost.

Teachers, responsible for own groups.

Trip leader, responsible for headcounts and registration.

Museum staff to have teachers mobile phone numbers

Health risksPotential of students getting ill or injured

All students and staff Important medical information collected off children before the trip.Prevent students from running around the museum to reduce chance of tripping.Students should not touch any machinery or moving parts.First Aid kit to be taken.

Trip leader to set out and define rules to students.

Teachers, responsible for each group.

First Aiders to be available.Students being kidnapped or running away

All Students Teachers are not to let students wander off.Students to be briefed not to wander of or leave with any strangers.Staff at museum to manage the exits and prevent students from leaving.

Students to take responsibility for their own safety.Teachers to look out for and after their own groups.

Museum staff to monitor exits.

How we did it

Visited museum to draft questions and take photos:Dan, Emma, Jenny, Johnny, Zohreh

Word processed questions and inserted photos:Jenny

Tested trail and amended/added questions:Alan and family

Risk Assessment write-up:Emma

Final edit of SCT:Dan, Johnny and Zohreh

Proof-read:Alan, Dan, Emma, Jenny, Johnny, Zohreh