– Mathoween 2006 –
A Mathematical Cornucopia of Pumpkins
Here is a student in a spider-man coustme playing Mrs. Gilmer's game. At this exciting game you had to pick a pencil from a haystack and measuring the length of the pencil with raw pumpkin seeds.
In this picture Sinclair and Victoria are helping a younger student learn the volume of pumpkins. At this game you submerge a pumpkin in water, and the water displaced is poured into a graduated cylinder and then measuered.The measuered amount of water is the volume of the pumpkin.
This is Noah in his karate costume playing a game called Silly Pumpkin Measure. In this game you measure how tall you are in baby pumpkins. As you can see Noah is about 14 pumpkins tall.
This is the board that the recipe commite made in 5th grade. They have 14 recipes on the board. Here are some recipes that they hade on the board: Spicy Pumpkin Pound Cake, Pumpkin Pancakes, and Pumpkin Amaretto Cheese Cake.
A student weighs herself in the second grade game called Weighing Pumpkins. Then the she weighs herself and the pumpkin, subtracts her weight from the total the overall weight and finds the weight of the pumpkin.
Here, Sean is at the 3rd grade booth, finding the two circumferences of the pumpkin. Now, he is finding the polar circumfrence, then he will use his tape measure to find the equaltorial circumference. The closer the two measurements are the more spherical it is.

At this booth, Children of all ages reach into a pumpkin and pull out a small hand full of cleaned seeds, then they estimate how many they have, count and double check to see if they are right.
CREDITS

Photography, image editing, and captions by

Jailyn

Criston

Dakota

Bryant
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