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Egg and Spoon Race Competitors carry an egg on a spoon and race to cross the finish line first, without dropping and breaking their egg! Holding the spoon with two hands or touching the egg with hands is not allowed. If a competitor drops the egg, they have to pick it up, put it back onto the spoon, and balance it before they can resume running.
hat do you think of when you think of sports? Many people think of sports such as soccer, football, baseball, and basketball.
There are hundreds, maybe thousands of sports played all over the world. We went looking for some of the most surprising!
In Tasmania, Australia, people drop apples from a bridge and watch the apples bob down the Houn River for 300 meters (328 feet). The owner of the first apple to cross the finish line wins. The Rotary Club of Houn Valley raises money by selling apples. Apple Racing
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Which apple won? Do the math to see how each apple nished. 6 7 + 1ST PLACE 2ND PLACE 3RD PLACE 4TH PLACE 5TH PLACE 6TH PLACE 8 7 + 6 4 + 9 9 + 5 4 + 9 5 +
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Standards Link: Math: Calculate sums and differences.
Speed Puzzlers Often, people think of doing jigsaw puzzles as relaxing. But some puzzlers also see it as a chance to see who can put a puzzle together the fastest. Use the code to discover some amazing puzzle facts!
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Students at Vietnam’s University of Economics put together a massive _ _ _ , _ _ _ -piece puzzle! This puzzle measured nearly _ _ feet
The fastest time to complete a _ _ _ -piece jigsaw puzzle is _ _ minutes and _ _ seconds, set by Alejandro Clemente León at the 2023 World Jigsaw Puzzle Championship.
In 2020, Sarah Mills of the United Kingdom completed a 1,000-piece puzzle in _ hour and _ _ minutes. That’s one piece each _ seconds!
by _ _ feet (14.85 x 23.2 meters). It took _ , _ _ _ students _ _ hours to put this big picture of a lotus ower together.
Standards Link: Language Arts: Read informational text.
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