Unloading fuel 1
KS2: Maths challenge
Learning objectives:
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to make calculations and find solutions to a variety of real life situations relating to the
Coldest Journey
to apply skills of functional mathematics
We had 1000 drums of aviation fuel lifted on board in London. The Crane lifted 4 drums at a
time. They are taken out of the hold in nets.
Each drum holds 205 litres of fuel.
If it takes 5 minutes and 20 seconds to
complete the action of lifting 4 drums from
the ship’s hold, how long will the Crane be
working to lift all the drums?
It actually takes – in total – another seven
minutes to fix the lifting gear to each set of
4 drums in the hold and to unfix it once the
drums are on the ice.
What is the total time required for the whole
unloading operation?
The team can only work for one hour
without taking a break. How many breaks
in total will the team need to take from the start to the finish of the unloading operation?
Once the drums are off the ship the aviation fuel is pumped into flubbers- mass storage
bladders which are held within a scoot (see below).
The flubbers hold 40 drums of fuel each.
How many litres of fuel will there be in each
flubber?
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If there are 14 flubbers, will this be enough to
hold all the fuel from the drums, or will there
be some drums left over? If so, how many?
Each flubber measures 4.5m x 2.8m. What is
the total space that will be needed on the
ice to store them, once they are filled?
Unfilled, each flubber weighs 30kgs. What is
the combined weight of all the flubbers,
before aviation fuel is pumped into them?