The brainchild of United Group Rail (United Group Limited), a leading engineering services company, the National Sports Museum will become the virtual classroom for nearly 15,000 Victorian students over the coming year with a tailored maths curriculum to engage students, make maths fun and provide real examples of where maths studies can take you.
Western Bulldogs player Dylan Addison and four time Olympian in basketball, Larry Sengstock, attended the launch to share their stories of maths and study and the role it plays in sport.
“You can’t underestimate the value of education and learning whether your aim is to be an athlete or a scientist. Programs like this make learning much more fun and mean that more kids will be able to understand and relate to the subject,” Addison said.
Dylan and Larry were joined by Year 9 students from Copperfield College in Delahey, a Bulldogs Friendly School, who were the first to experience the maths tools.
The UGL program encourages students to visit the National Sports Museum to celebrate the great achievements in Australian sport. It is in these achievements that what it means to be Australian has been shaped and developed.
With the notion of the VELS (Victorian Essential Learning Standards) curriculum students are encouraged to explore the role of maths in sport in terms of scores, averages: statistics, angles and geometry and recognise the importance that maths plays beyond the classroom.
