The World Cup: A Fair Game?

The World Cup: A Fair Game? World Cup 2014 – Maths Themed Activities

Activity 1:

What are the chances?

An equal opportunity?

PROBABILITY

True or false?

1.Brazil is very unlikely to win the World Cup.

2.England has a 1/32 chance of winning the World Cup.

3.A team from Africa has the same chance of winning the World Cup as a team from Europe.

Does every team have the same chance of winning?

There are 32 countries taking part in the World Cup.

• Each team has the same number of players.

• Each team will play by the same rules.

• What else is the same about the World Cup teams?

PROBABILITY – FRACTIONS

The total teams in the World Cup: 32/32

PROBABILITY FRACTIONS

What is the probability of: 1.Any team winning the World Cup? 2.A team from Group A winning the World Cup?3.A team from Group D winning the World Cup? 4.A country with the colour red used in its flag winning the World Cup?

PROBABILITY – STATEMENTS

FIFA rankings of teams

PROBABILITY – STATEMENTS

Even chance

Impossible

More likely

Highly unlikely

Unlikely

Likely

Highly likely

Certain

Less likely

The .............. team is ............................................... to win the World Cup because ...............................

A team from group ........ is ............................................... to win the World Cup than a team from group ..... because ..................

A team from Europe is ............................................... to win the World Cup than a team from Africa because ..............................

The .............. team is ............................................... to win the World Cup than the ............ team because ...............................

• Why do some teams have a greater chance of winning?

• Why do teams from some continents have a greater chance of winning?

• Are there any football reasons?

• Are there any non-football reasons?

Why isn’t it equal?

Reasons for teams being more/less likely to win the World Cup…

Reasons for teams being more/less likely to win the World Cup…

How much is this related to things outside of football itself? Is this fair?

How much is this related to things outside of football itself? Is this fair?

Activity 2: World Cup Country Incomes

Global Inequality

COUNTRY INCOMES

The World Bank classifies each country as either:

a high income country

an upper-middle income country

a lower-middle income country

a low income country

Which do you think each of these countries is?

Ivory CoastUSA England Brazil

$11340

$1167

$13879

$9749

$67442

$15452

$45960

$28274

$42597

$1605

$20175

$51749

$5348

$43399

$22590

$14037

$7748

$1244

$22442

$46731

$9386

$38920

$33816

$14703

$5425

$39746

$2323

$78928

$11573

$4556

$7228

$2722

Was there a big difference between the country incomes?

This is called income inequality.

Inequality means the difference in resources or opportunities for one group of people versus another.

INEQUALITY

1. Make a map of the country incomes for World Cup countries. Where are most of the wealthier countries?

2. Make a tally of the country incomes. How wealthy are the World Cup countries?

3. Compare the incomes of the higher and lower income countries. How large is income inequality in the World Cup?

WORLD CUP COUNTRY INCOMES

What do you notice? What fraction or percentage of the World Cup teams are from different income brackets?

Did you draw a graph to show this visually?

Are there any low income countries at all? Why not?

WORLD CUP COUNTRY INCOMES

To help understand this, lets look at the income inequality between the higher and lower income countries in the World Cup.

Use the worksheet to help you make ratios.

What ratio did you find?

COMPARING WEALTH

Can you compare the ratios of the top 3 and bottom 3 World Cup countries average incomes?Highest 3 incomes: av. $66,000Lowest 3 incomes: av. $1,300Ratio = 66 : 1.3

= 66 / 1.3 = 51= 51:1

This means the richest 3 countries have 51x more money per person than the poorest 3 in the World Cup. Is this fair?

COMPARING WEALTH

LOW INCOME COUNTIRES

So why are there no low income countries in the World Cup at all?

What can richer countries do with this extra money that gives them an advantage over them?

Think about things which extra income can do to help affect:

•football teams directly (such as training resources, kit)

•and also indirectly (such as better healthcare and education for children).

WHY?

Example – African football

There are 54 countries in Africa.

In most of them people love football.

For example, the African Cup of Nations is extremely popular.

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Which African teams?

But although the majority of countries in Africa play football, only the more wealthy African countries are playing in the World Cup.

Country Income per

personIncome group World cup

appearances

Nigeria 2,450 Lower middle 6

Cameroon 2,270 Lower middle 5

Tanzania 609 Low 0

Malawi 268 Low 0

Which African teams?People in Malawi and Tanzania love football.

So why do they struggle to participate in the World Cup?

Is it partly due to being a low income country? Is this fair?

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STATEMENTS AND GENERALISATIONS

The more money a

country has…

The more money a

country has…

Wealthy countries

are…

Wealthy countries

are…

Inequality in the world cup is..

Inequality in the world cup is..

Most…

Most…

European countries… European

countries…

IS THIS FAIR?

If a low income country has less money to invest in football, what else would it have less money to invest in?

If a high income country has more money to invest in football, what else would it have more money to invest in?

Would you prefer to grow up in a high / middle / low incomecountry? Why?

Choose a team to support through the tournament.Will you choose a high / middle / low income country? Why? Is football fair?

STATEMENTS – WORLD CUP DISPLAY Why are some teams more likely to win the World Cup?

1. What fraction of the World Cup countries have a high income?

2. What fraction of the World Cup countries have an upper-middle income?

3. What fraction of the World Cup countries have a lower-middle income?

4. What fraction of the World Cup countries have a low income?

5. What fraction of countries have a high-income and are in the Fifa top 16?

6. What fraction of countries have a lower-middle income and are in the Fifa top 16?

7. What fraction of upper-middle income countries are in the Fifa top 16?

8. What fraction of low income countries are in the Fifa top 16?

KS2 WORLD CUP DATA

KS3 WORLD CUP DATA1.What fraction of the World Cup countries have a high income?

2.What fraction of the World Cup countries have a low income?

3.What fraction of countries have a high-income and are in the Fifa top 16?

4.What fraction of countries have a lower-middle income and are in the Fifa top 16?

5.What percentage of World Cup countries are in Europe?

6.What percentage of World Cup countries are in Africa?

7.What percentage of World Cup countries are in Asia?

8.What percentage of World Cup countries are in North and Central America?

9.What percentage of World Cup countries are in South America? *Fifa classifies Australia and Iran as Asian and Russia as European!

Activity 3: Equality Scores

TOP TRUMPS

INEQUALITY WITHIN COUNTRIES

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INEQUALITY WITHIN COUNTRIES Each of the World Cup countries has been given a score to show how equal or unequal they are.

0 A score of 0 means that the country is completely equal –

that everyone in that country has the same amount of money.

That would look something like this:

In reality, no country looks like this.

INEQUALITY WITHIN COUNTRIES A score of 1.0 means the country is completely unequal.

This would look something like this:

1

In reality, thankfully, no country looks like this either.

FAIRNESS SCORE EXAMPLESPlot the 4 countries below

Which is fairest? Are there any surprises?

Where do you think England would score?

0.25 0.30 0.35 0.40 0.45 0.50 0.55

Completely Equal

Completely Unequal

USA

0.37

Japan

0.29

Brazil

0.46

Cameroon

0.36

World Cup Groups Fairness WinnersTask:

Look at the equality scores for the World Cup countries.

You will look at the countries in 1 group.

Order the scores from lowest to highest for your group. • Which countries are the most equal in your group?• Which countries are the least equal in your group? • What is the average in your group?• How does your average compare to other groups

averages?

(Remember: a score of 0 means the country is perfectly

Equal).

Equality Winners Snowballing Task:

Work with the other people in your class.

• Find out which country is the most and least

equal in each group.

• Record your findings in your table.

• What do you think you will find?

• Which of the World Cup countries do you think are the most equal?

CHALLENGE

Choose a set of data to show fairness scores

on a bar chart.

This could be: • a continent, such as Europe• the Fifa Group you started the activity with • the lowest fairness scores • the highest fairness scores.

Challenge: Could you represent the mean fairness scores for each continent?

Equality Winners

Country

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KS2 Extension

Equality WinnersKS3 Extension

DOES A COUNTRY GET FAIRER AS IT GETS RICHER?

Extension

Is there a relationship between wealth of a nation and equality

within a nation?

Would you expect a country to get fairer as it gets richer?

Further Activity

THINK IT OVER

Which are you most surprised about, inequality betweencounties or inequality within countries?

Did you find what you expected?

Do you think that it is right that some people have much moremoney than others? Why? What might a more

equal country be like?

What might a more equal country be like?

The World Cup: A Fair Game?

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