Olympic Math Challenge #4

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This week we have been using the Olympic games to help us with our math. The fourth challenge was about the countries medal tallys. Since 1896 countries participating in the summer Olympic games have been creating their own all-time medal tally. Use the data from both charts to work out the top 10 medal winning countries. Create a graph to display this data. Include a comparison to NZ’s medal tally. Be creative with the data you choose to show. The more information you include, the easier it will be to analyse and draw conclusions. Hint you will need to add the totals from both charts together.

In the second blogpost it says 'Create a graph to display the data' which means to sum the top 10 totals. When I added the top 10 totals  I ranked it from 1-10, So the top 10 countries are:

1. United States of America - 2673

2. USSR/Russian Federation - 1271

3. Germany - 788

4. Italy - 771

5. Great Britain - 770

6. France - 683

7. Republic of Germany - 625

8. Sweden - 561

9. China - 487

10. Norway - 457

I found this activity interesting because it help me expand my knowledge of addition.