Longitude, latitude, equator and more

Our grade four explorers (‘map explores’ that is) took a trip. They mapped the path overland from Oman to a designated country. Some of the countries we mapped of our paths to were Chile, Mozambique, Mexico, Nigeria, Cuba, Indonesia and Belgium to name a...

Booking flights for math

There were a few surprised and puzzled looks when the children were asked to login to Oman Air’s website to book a flight to anywhere the airline flew. But there was a catch: they had to write the departure and arrival times in 24 hr format. Failure to do so...

Volume and capacity

How much water do we drink in a day? To begin with we need to calculate the capacity of our water bottles. What then does the word ‘volume’ have to do with it?……