Barbie Bungee

Today we bungeed Barbies! This is a task I’ve been wanting to do for ages, but never did. I went to the thrift store and dollar store and got a variety of characters to bungee.

We started off with each team getting 7 elastics and then we started to test the stretch to figure out how many elastics would be needed to bungee down the 537cm from the top of the atrium stairs down to the floor. The goal was to give the character a thrilling and death defying ride.

We had groups try different strategies. Many did trial and error with different number of elastics, checking how far the bungee would go.

groups put data in tables and used proportionality to find their answers.

Groups used desmos to find averages, and also to solve the problem of how many elastics are needed.

Finally we bungeed the Barbies!

We had quite the audience for some of the plunges. It was a great success, with only one ending up on the floor.

We had a lot of fun on the snow day and working through some math!