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The latest activity to be updated on this site is called "Speed Skills" (Practise your skills finding either the speed, distance or time given the other two values.).

So far this activity has been accessed 96 times and 31 people have earned a Transum Trophy for completing it.

Speed Skills

You use speed without even thinking about it: how fast you walk, how long a car journey will take, or whether you will make it on time. This activity helps you get really good at the simple idea that speed is “distance divided by time”, and how to rearrange that to find distance or time when you need to.

A big part of being accurate is using the right units. Real life is full of different ones (m/s, km/h, mph), so you need to be able to convert between them and spot when a question has mixed units. That is a skill that comes up in maths, science, geography, sport, and even in games and apps that track your pace.

These questions also train you to read carefully and decide what information matters, rather than just grabbing the first numbers you see. If you can keep your units consistent, choose the right method, and check your answer makes sense, you will make fewer mistakes in tests and you will be much quicker and more confident with problems involving speed.


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