Here is a fun experiment for Junior High School students to get your brains working mathamatically.

All you need is someone to keep time, tape to mark were to start and were to stop, and one small ball to jugle back and forth as you are walking.

        1. First of all, make sure you choose a person who
              knows how to work a stopwatch
        2. Make the tape marks so that you walk 100 feet
        3. Get everyone lined up and let them know that
              they should try to keep from dropping the
              ball because it will mess up their time
        4. Record time on a piece of paper

Remember that twelve inches equals one foot and 5280 feet equals one mile, and 2.54 centimeters equals one inch.

Another thing to remember is that there are 60 seconds in one minute, and 60 minutes in one hour.

You can use these conversions to figure out how fast you walk (feet per second, inches per second, miles per hour, or meters per second).

Here are the results from when I tried this experiment in my Survey Of College Mathematics class:
        *It took me 23.080 seconds to walk 100 feet while
              tossing a ball from hand to hand.
        *I walked 4.3 feet per second (100/time).
        *I walked 51.6 inches per second (4.3*12).

For more information and ideas about this project you may link to a page written by one of the following math artists: Danielle, Darlene, Kellie's Second Web Page, Jill, Nanyal, Kevin, Crystal, Rachel, Christina, Jennifer, Candice, Vincent, Esther and Melinda. Most of us are in this picture but not in order of names.