Limb and Life

Research about the guy from the Limb and Life article you’ve been reading in CSI.

 

Write questions for the following answers:

Q. How old is Cameron Clapp?

A. 28

Q. When did Cameron lose his limbs?

A. September 15, 2001

Q. How did Cameron lose his limbs?

A. He was hit by a train.

Q. What replacements did he get?

A. He has 3. One each for walking, running & swimming

Q. What film did Cameron star in?

A .2008 feature film Stop-Loss.

Q. What does Cameron Clapp do some of the time?

A. He gives motivational talks to soldiers who have lost limbs.

Q. How much does each prosthetic limb loss?

A. $40,000 each.

Q.What type of limbs does Cameron have?

A. Prosthetic.

Q. What parts of Cameron's body are prosthetic?

A. His right arm and both legs.

Q. What did Cameron say in one of his first speeches?

A.  "I left the wheelchair five months after the accident and I don’t want to have to use it again."

Find and watch a recent video of Cameron. Embed the video.

Maths Week Day 5 (Last day)

The 20 Dollar Question. 

One of these knots is not a knot.

Which knot is it ?

(a) Red

(b) Blue

(c) Green

B  √

The 20 Dollar Question.

Two of these knots are not knots.

Which two are they?

(a) Red and blue.

(b) Blue and green.

(c) Red and green. 

A x

The 40 Dollar Question. 

This very famous clock is in

the St Pancras Railway

Station in London.

Lots of movies have this

clock in them.

What time is it ?

(a) 11 - 20

(b) 11 - 40

(c) 7 - 58

B √

The 60 Dollar Question. 

The start of this century was a day

celebrated through-out the world.

Your parents will remember it !!

What day of the week was 

January 1st, 2000 ?

Saturday√

The 80 Dollar Question. 

What is this? It looks quite old

and is in the British Science

Museum.

Is it

(a) A toy.

(b) A money box.

(c) The first calculator.

C√

The 80 Dollar Question. 

At low tide the water comes

up as far as the fourth rung

on the ladder of the ship.

What happens at full tide?

The water 

(a) comes up to the top 

of the ladder.

(b) comes up to the

bottom of the ladder.

(c) stays on the fourth

rung of the ladder. 

B x

Maths Week Daily Challenge

The 20 Dollar Question.
This man was one of the greatest mathematicians. Calculate the age Leonhard Euler was when he died.
76 √
The 30 Dollar Question
Pierre de Fermat was a very gifted French mathematician. How old was he when he died?
64 √

The 30 Dollar Question.
Sofia Kovalevskaya was an outstanding mathematician who was a  Russian and very popular. She was born in Moscow in 1850 and died in Stockholm in 1891. How long did she live for?
41 √

The 40 Dollar Question.
Sir Isaac Newton was one of the greatest mathematicians of all time. He was born in England on Christmas day. How long did he live for?

84 √

The 40 Dollar Question.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was a German maths person who became famous for his work in inventing calculus. How old was he when he died? 

70 √

The 40 Dollar Question.

Sophie Germain lived all her life in Paris. She was a brilliant mathematician. A street in Paris is named after her – and perhaps also a football club! Sophie lived from 1776 to 1831. How long did she live for?

55 √

The 50 Dollar Question.

Maria Agnesi was born in Italy in

1718. She was eldest in a family of

21 children! 

Maria was a very bright and

intelligent student. She could speak

5 different languages before she

was 9 years old !

She became an outstanding maths

person and was the first professor

of mathematics at a University.

Maria died in 1799.

How old was she? 

81 √

The 50 Dollar Question.

Ernest Rutherford is New

Zealand’s greatest

scientist. He was awarded

the Noble Prize in

Chemistry in 1908. 

Lord Rutherford was also

a mathematician. While at

University in 1892 he

taught mathematics at

Christchurch Boys’ High School.

How many years did Ernest Rutherford live for ?

66 √

Maths week 'Two Tens for Five'

Here is the script!
Abbott: Have you got two tens for a five?
Costello: Just so happen to have it.
Lou gives Bud ten dollars and Bud gives Lou five
dollars.
Costello: Just a minute, just one minute!
Abbott: Something wrong?
Costello: Fifteen dollars just went south!
Abbott: What do you mean?
Costello: You gave me a lot of your fast talk, you said 'do you have
two tens for a five' and I gave you two tens for a five.
Abbott: Just a minute, are you accusing me of cheating?
Costello: No, but you got two tens for a five.
Abbott: Alright here's your five now gimme back my two tens.

Costello: Okay, that's better.

Bud gives Lou five dollars and Lou gives Bud ten dollars.

After a slight pause Lou realises he has been conned again.

Costello: What are you doing?

Abbott: What’s wrong now?Costello: Look Abbott, here's two tens gimme a five!

Abbott: Certainly.

Lou gives Bud ten dollars and Bud gives Lou five dollars.

Costello: HA HA HA HAAA!
You did it to me...
You did it to me again.

Abbott: Oh come on.



The 300 Dollar Question. 
How much did Lou lose ?
45 Dollars   √

Try to act it out with you friend. Use paper as money!

Maybe you can act it out as the famous Bud Abbott and Lou Costello 
did!

Bicycle (Bike) Improvements

List ten ways you could improve Bicycles that are realistic.

• Place a electrical wire-ring system in the bike that would be able to cool down your drink bottle like a chilly bin.
• Build a surround sound system on the handle bars and back of the bike so you could plug in your phone and it would play out loud.
• You could make you bike a WIFI hotspot.
• Hook up a AI GPS.
• Wire in a phone charger but the catch is the faster you ride, the faster the phone charges.
• You could make the bike a colour changer when it comes in contact with water it changes colour.

Coke Caps

Coca Cola teamed up with award-winning ad agency Ogilvy & Mather China on a new “2nd Lives” campaign and created 16 red screw-on caps that transform the otherwise-useless left-over plastic bottle into something creative, fun and usable. This environmentally friendly campaign launched in Vietnam, where 40,000 free caps will be given away when purchasing the iconic soda drink.

Try to guess what the 16 changed bottle caps are: 

1. A Bubble Blower

2. Pacifier

3. Hand sanitizer (soap disperser)

4. Soy sause

5. Mustard container

6. Water Gun

7. Salt and pepper shaker

8. Marker pen

9. Jet spray nosel

10. Paint brush

11. Pencil sharpener

12. Baby rattle

13. Nightlight

14. Dumbbell

15. Whistle

16. Another sparayer

Random Questions

1. Where do Winnie the Pooh, Eeyore, Piglet and Kanga live? √

100 Acre Woods

2. What country is Dracula’s castle found? √

Romania

3. Tin Tin’s friend Captain Haddock lived in what house? √

Marlin Hall

4. Huckleberry Finn travelled down what river? √

Mississippi River

5. Where did Paddington Bear come from? √

Darkest Peru 

6. The Scarlett Pimpernell was set where and when? √

Set in 1792 in France

7. Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson was set where? √

1886 on Wild Highlands

8. In The Cay, 11 year old Phillip Enright’s boat leaves from where before it is torpedoed? √

Curaçao

9. In what city does Black Beauty pull a taxicab? √

London

10. Where was Tarzan raised? √

In the African Jungle

11. Where was James Biggleworth otherwise known as Biggles born? √

India