Monday, April 12, 2010

AP Calculus

Double Dare
Mr. Parker's class is amazing. We had a competition with math equations and then we had to do physical challenges as well, it was great!
In this event you had to stack ten papers high.

This one was hilarious. There was a penny at the bottom of each leg of the pantyhose and they had to get their arms in each leg, grab the penny and pull them out, sounds easy right? Well you couldn't use your other hand to help put on the pantyhose and take them off, you had to do it all without your left and right hands/arms touching at all! It was funny to watch them try to contort themselves to get those pantyhose off.

This was pretty entertaining. They had to get four cotton balls from one side of the room to the other, but you had to do it by putting Vaseline on your nose and getting the cotton balls to stick to your nose and then you had to find a way to get them off your nose, but you couldn't use your hands.

This one was probably the best one, hence the reason I have a video of it below the picture. I'd explain, but I'll let Mr. Parker do that, he does such a great job of it.

This is Shorty and Caitlin


This one was easy, too bad I didn't get this one. On this all you had to do was pull the tissues out of the box. See who could do it the fastest, but you could only pull one out at a time. Kind of funny.

This was interesting. You had string tied to both ends of a pencil and then as you see you wrap the string over your ears and pull the pencil up to your mouth. Placed on the pencil is three M&M's. Your goal is to get them into your mouth. If they fall off, you have to start over from ground level!

This one you had to get all the cups off the desk, but you had to blow up the balloon and use that air to knock the cups over it was a good one.

This one you had three balloons and you had to keep them in the air as long as you could, using only one hand. It is harder than it sounds.

This is the challenge that I got to participate in. Trying to knock over the cups with the pantyhose on my head that had a baseball in the end of one of the legs. It is not very easy, especially when your are laughing. At one point Mr. Parker told me that the elephants would be embarrassed. :D ha ha enjoy


As good as mine was, Mr. Davidson's was better. He came into our class randomly so we forced him to do it. It is a great video. (Oh and Mr. Parker turned the cups upside down on purpose, makes it practically impossible to knock them over, they just slide. You will see Davidson's frustration.)

On this physical challenge you had to bounce the waffle ball off of the desk and get it to land in the cups on the other desk. You had to be the first one to get two balls into the cups.

I love math!

2 comments:

Alyssa :) said...

I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU PUT THAT VIDEO ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Stephanie said...

You'd better start believing because i did!