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    1) At the 2008 Beijing Olympics, many world records were broken, including Michael Phelps winning 8 gold medals and Usain Bolt setting new records in the 100m and 200m races. 2) By 2009, Bolt had improved his own 100m world record and only a few of Phelps' records remained, showing how athletic achievements can progress rapidly. 3) This document discusses forecasting future human sporting achievement by analyzing past results and factors like training to predict limits and new records, though predictions have uncertainties.

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    1) At the 2008 Beijing Olympics, many world records were broken, including Michael Phelps winning 8 gold medals and Usain Bolt setting new records in the 100m and 200m races. 2) By 2009, Bolt had improved his own 100m world record and only a few of Phelps' records remained, showing how athletic achievements can progress rapidly. 3) This document discusses forecasting future human sporting achievement by analyzing past results and factors like training to predict limits and new records, though predictions have uncertainties.

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    Notes For Teachers: Bringing Significance To The Classroom

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    1) At the 2008 Beijing Olympics, many world records were broken, including Michael Phelps winning 8 gold medals and Usain Bolt setting new records in the 100m and 200m races. 2) By 2009, Bolt had improved his own 100m world record and only a few of Phelps' records remained, showing how athletic achievements can progress rapidly. 3) This document discusses forecasting future human sporting achievement by analyzing past results and factors like training to predict limits and new records, though predictions have uncertainties.

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    BringingSignificancetotheclassroom

    Notesforteachers

    ForecastingHumanSportingAchievement
    InspiredbyAthleticsattheBeijingOlympics:howmuchfastercananyonerun?anarticlein
    Significance,Volume5,Issue4,pages153158,December2008

    Introduction

    Atthe2008BeijingOlympicGames,43worldrecordswerebrokenacrossarangeofsporting
    disciplines25ofthemintheswimmingpoolalone.USAsMichaelPhelpsentered8
    swimmingeventsandwon8goldmedals,7inworldrecordtimes.Ontherunningtrack,Usain
    BoltofJamaicaranfasterthananyoneelseeverinthe100mandthenrepeatedthefeatinthe
    200m.Bothmenwerehailedasheroesandtheirachievementsaspinnaclesofsporting
    endeavour.Bytheendof2009however,Bolthadslashedoveronetenthofasecondoffofhis
    own100mworldrecord,running9.58sattheAthleticsWorldChampionshipsinBerlinandonly
    twoofPhelps7Beijingrecordsremainedintacthehimselfsurpassing3aswellasaddingthe
    100mbutterflyworldrecordtohislistofaccolades.
    Inlightoftheseachievementsitseemsreasonabletoaskthequestions:

    Howmuchbettercanathletesget?
    Howmuchfastercanahumanbeingrunorswim?
    Howmuchfurthercananyonejumporthrow?
    Isthereanupperlimittowhatcanbeachieved?
    Isitpossibletoforecastfuturesportingachievementfrompastresults?Isitreasonable
    todoso?
    Whatfactorsotherthanathleticprowesshaveinfluencedperformance?Whatfactors
    maychangeinthefuture?

    Teachingresources

    Theteachingresourcespresentedbelowareaimedatencouragingstudentstoplan,collect,
    processandrepresentdataofsportingachievementsinordertousesimplestatisticalmodeling
    techniquestomakepredictionsaboutfutureoutcomes.Thereliabilityofthesepredictionsand
    thevalidityofthemodelsusedarethenconsideredthroughdiscussionexercises.Thereis
    muchscopeforthissinglelessonactivitybeingadaptedasanextendedstatisticsprojectand
    ideasfordoingsoareincludedintheresources.

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