Round-the-World Flight: a speed, distance and time game for the 11+

About Round-the-World

Round-the-World Flight takes your child from London to Cairo, Mumbai, Tokyo, Sydney, New York and home in six legs. Each leg opens with a departures board, then asks a take-off and a landing question; the last leg adds a third, through the Atlantic storm. About three quarters of the 13 questions are speed, distance and time, with time and units revision mixed in.

A wrong answer is a headwind: a bumpy ride, a 12-minute delay and the trap explained, then the plane flies on. Questions get harder after three right in a row and easier after two misses in a row, and the storm questions are a level harder again. The flight report at the end gives a score for each topic and works through every trap.

How to play Round-the-World

1. Choose your flight (Short Haul, Long Haul or Ultra Long Haul) and press Take off.
2. Check the departures board, then answer the take-off and landing questions on each leg.
3. Answer quickly to catch a tailwind for bonus air miles and minutes off any delay.
4. Get three right in a row to ride the jet stream for 250 bonus air miles.
5. Fly the last leg home through the Atlantic storm: three harder questions to land in London.

What it practises for the 11+

Speed, Distance and Time

Using speed = distance ÷ time, and the other two ways round, for journey times, arrival times, average speeds and distance–time graphs. It also tackles the classic trap with minutes: 20 minutes is a third of an hour, not 0.2 of an hour. Learn the topic →

Time

Reading timetables and the 24-hour clock, and working out durations, start and finish times and time zones. For example, a journey from 22:40 to 01:15 takes 2 hours 35 minutes. Learn the topic →

Units

Converting between metric units, mixed units, imperial units and currencies, and reading conversion graphs. For example, 3 m 5 cm is 3.05 m, not 3.5 m. Learn the topic →

Try Round-the-World questions

Questions from the game, for you to try together. Have a go before opening the answer.

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