Category: in motion

Can you see the maths inside motion? How fast can you run?🏃 Who is the fastest runner you know? 🏃💨How do you know the speed they are moving? 🏎 What about a car? How can we catch cars that travel too fast? 🚗 🚓 On a bike, what else changes when you change gear? 🚴⚙️

In the playpark, how will a released swing move? Where will it be after five seconds? Five minutes? Five hours? 🤔⏱ Why does it behave like this? How can the movement of the seesaw, merry-go-round, and spring-rider be described?🛝

🧭⛵ A sailor in open water sails due west for one hour, and then due east for one hour. They arrive in a different place to the one they started, why?

🧭🌍 I walk one mile south, one mile west, one mile north and now I am back where I started, where on Earth could I be?

🏀 Why does a ball roll down a hill? What happens when the ball is bigger or smaller? When the hill is more or less steep? Can you calculate what time it will arrive at the bottom?

⚽⛷🏂🏇🏄🏌 Where is the maths inside the motion of your favourite sport? 🤸‍🤹🥋‍🏉🏓🏸 How are motions be described, predicted, improved? Why are they the way they are?

🎱🏹🎻🎺 In motion is a brand new category launched for 2023. We are looking forward to receiving your entries for this new exciting category! Below you will find some past entries for inspiration. Click on the photos and scroll down to display complete submission details. These are just examples to get you thinking and not models to follow. Be as creative as you like with your titles and commentaries! Ask lots of questions and see what you can discover!

Winning entries make deep connections between the subject(s) of their photo and the maths inside them and explain this in their commentary. Discover for yourself or find ideas and inspiration in our past winners and resources

👉👉 If you have found the maths inside motion, please submit to this category 📸