EdVenture MathTrail Template

EdVenture the largest children's museum in the Southeast and is located along the historic Congaree Vista in Columbia, South Carolina

EdVenture in collaboration with the South Carolina Council of Teachersof Mathematics sponsors this EdVenture Math Trail!
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How Does it Work?

A Math Trail is a mathematical journey taken anywhere - on a city street,in a grocery store, in a garden, at the mall, and even at EdVenture.
Go to each section of the designated sections of EdVenture and answer as many questions as you can.
Let the Math Trail Begin!

As you walk along the trees, notice the symmetry in the leaves and plants. Symmetry is when the two halves of something are exactly the same. Think of a butterfly, a heart shape. These shapes have symmetry.
Notice the different patterns in the bark of the trees.
Eddie's Eco Garden
1. What do you see that has symmetry?
Notice the different patterns in the bark of the trees.
2. Can you identify the trees by name?
3. Identify trees that are the same kind of
4. How else can you identify the same species of trees?
Turn around and look at the parking lot.
5. How can you estimate the number of parking spaces?
6. How many do you think there are?
Eddie
7. What time is it on Eddie’s watch?
8. What time would it be five hours after the time on Eddie's watch?
9. What time would it be seven hours before the time on Eddie's watch?
10. How many pieces do you think it takes to make up Eddie's spine?
11. How tall do you think Eddie is?
12. Find the sign with Eddie’s height. How tall is Eddie?
13. If Eddie was made into a scale model with a factor of one-third, how tall would Eddie be? How tall would his model be?
14. How many ways can you get to Eddie’s brain?
15. Is Eddie’s face symmetrical from the outside?
What about the inside?
Great Outdoors
16. How long does it take for the boat to travel
17. How long does it take with different obstacles?
18 Guesstimate the weight of a full bucket of water.
19 What is the average speed of a tricycle making it from the mining station to the water play area?
Publix
20. How many items can you place in your cart?
21. What coins and bills would the cashier give you back
22. How many fruits and vegetables can you find?
23. If you spent $15.00 and gave the cashier $20, hnow much change would you get back?
Honey Bee Farm
24. With a partner, one partner will the other person will try to count as many bottles. Did you bolth do the count?
25.How many bottles did you count?
26. How many bottles did your partner count?
27. What was your method for counting the bottles?
Dalmatian Station
28. How long do you think it would take you to evacuate from underneath the firetruck?
29. Time your partner and trade places. How long did you take to crawl underneath the firetruck?
30. How many ways can you exit this exhibit?
31 What is the probability that you will exit the same way you entered the exhibit?
32 Complete the escape artist activity. Did you do this activity?
33 How many steps are there when you are leaving the house to excape a fire?
34 During the question portion of the activity, what is the question correct?
35. What is the probablility you would get the question wrong?
Coin Vortex
36. Which coin do you think will go go through faster, a penny, nickel, dime, or quarter?
37. Which coin is faster?
38. Why do you think that coin is faster through the vortex?
Tesla Musical Coil
39. Explain how the voltage and timing of the coil work in sync.
40. How much voltage can have an adverse effect on a human?
41. Explain why a certain amount of voltage can be harmful.
42. What are the dimensions of the sphere?
Newsroom

(Go through Auto works to the stairs.)
43. What geometric shapes do you see in this room?
44. How many shapes do you see that are classified as quadrilaterals?
45. How many other exhibits can you see from this room?
46. How far from the cameras do you have to be in order to be seen on both cameras? What type of angle would this be considered?
47. Play a game of Operation and see what percent of successful tries you have as you remove various body parts. (What was your percentage?)
48. Look at the pharmacy area and answer these questions. What are the colors of shapes that you will use?
49. How many green shapes weigh the same as two red shapes?
50. How many yellow shapes wright the same as 2 greens and a blu?
51. What equations can you create?
Wags and Whiskers
52.How many different pets are there?
53.What is the ratio of different pets?
54.How many legs do all of the pets have in total?
55.How did you get your answer?
Richland Library
56. Estimate the number of books on the shelves. How did you find your answer?
57. How many bookshelves are there? How did you find your answer?
Paper Plane Station
58. Make a paper airplane and see if you can make it through the circle. What happened?
59. Which airplane worked best?
Flight
60. How many passenger seats are in the airplane?
61. How many forces are there in flight? What are they? What do they do?
62. Measuring with your arms, what is the diameter of the cowling? What is the radius?
63. Estimate the circumference of the cowling?
64. How did you guesstimate the circumference of the cowling?
65. Measure the circumference to see if you're correct. What is the correct circumference?
My Backyard
67.What is the area of the room?
67.What is the ratio of adults to children?
Maker Works
68. Using the materials, build a parachute. Does yours float from the bottom of the tube to the top?
69.What helped make it go to the top?
70. How much of the materials did you use?
71. With the Legos or blocks, build a cube. How many pieces did you use?
72. With the Legos or blocks, build a rectangular prism. How many pieces did you use?
73. How do you know it is a rectangular
74. Go to the Kapla room. How high is the tallest tower you can build with 10 block?
75.How wide is the widest tower you can build with 10 blocks?
75.How wide is the widest tower you can build with 10 blocks?
76. What type of blocks did you use?
Marble Mechanics
77. Can you get the marble from the top to the bottom?
78. How many materials did you use to get the marbl from the top to the bottom? Can you use fewer materials? What materials did you use?
79. What types of angles were used to direct the marble from the top to the bottom?
80. Was the slope of the materials steep?
81. What theorem can you use to find the steepness of the slope?
This EdVenture Math Trail is brought to you in partnership with the South Carolina Council of Teachers of Mathematics. scctm.org
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EdVenture the largest children's museum in the Southeast and is located along the historic Congaree Vista in Columbia, South Carolina

How Does it Work?

Let the Math Trail Begin!

Eddie's Eco Garden

Eddie

Great Outdoors

Publix

Honey Bee Farm

Dalmatian Station

Coin Vortex

Tesla Musical Coil

Newsroom

Wags and Whiskers

Richland Library

Paper Plane Station

Flight

My Backyard

Maker Works

Marble Mechanics