We made a spaghetti tower with uncooked spaghetti and marshmallows. The tower had to be 40 cm high and able to hold an egg through an earthquake. We made our tower’s base a triangle because squares tend to twist and swivel. We tried to make the least amount of bending by only having 3 “stories”. They like to bend where the spaghetti joins together to we had the least amount. We have a “basket” at the top to hold the egg. The tower looks like it is leaning because the spaghetti slid all the way through the marshmallow. That is our only problem. But we are still lucky to have ours standing because a lot of people’s fell over.

Question: Hayden is going door to door around her cul-de-sac to sell cookies for a fundraiser. It takes 8 minutes for her to go to a house and sell the cookies to her neighbors. If there are 5 houses on the block how long will it take for Hayden to go to all the houses in all? Use a table to figure out the equation. 

X=Houses      Y=Minutes

Answer: It will take Hayden a total of 40 minutes. Every house she adds 8 minutes onto her time fundraising. If there are 5 houses and 8 minutes at each house that equals 40 minutes of fundraising.

          In math I learned about rational numbers. I learned how to divide and multiply rational numbers. I also learned how to divide and multiply fractions with unlike denominators and how to make them have the same denominators. In life I can use math to figure out formulas or in cooking. I might need to know how to divide things into groups and I won’t always have a calculator or a math teacher. Math can be very handy sometimes but it can also be hard at times.