Monseigneur Money Spider was in a spin. The revolving door of the bank where he lived was stuck and his patience was wearing thin. He didn't know how to get out ... nor could he get in. When it came to finding his way around the bank vault, he didn't know where to begin and the thread on which he hung was getting precariously thin. He hoped it wouldn't snap, at all, and he wouldn't be able to climb back up the wall. Monseigneur Money Spider tried to dismount, but there were so many millions of bank notes piled up high, that he quickly started to lose count. He went to take a look around the vault, wondering what it was that was at fault. Monseigneur Money Spider was having a real good time - but he hadn't expected that his trip would cost him so many nickels and dimes.
Merry - Go Round
Circle around the word "round" inside these bigger words. Then make a sentence using the word as an example.
roundabout around round the clock rounder underground round - up rounded off roundest ground merry - go round rounded roundly
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Monseigneur Money Spider & The Out Of Control Money Making Machine
Monseigner Money Spider one afternoon was abseiling down the bank vault, when he slipped - Gosh ! he felt a goon ! As his furry foot became ungripped, he tripped the switch ... from OFF to ON ! When he ran, the button slipped - and the photocopier began. Soon, the whole bank was like a disco - it didn't matter much if there were four bank robbers on the go ! Monseigner Money Spider narrowly missed the light switch, as he fell ... so ON he switched the alarm as well ! You'd never seen a bank so well lit, as when Monseigner Money Spider's spidery legs danced a bit ! Needless to say, he couldn't decide where on his spidery web to sit ... so, needless to say, his size 12 spidery legs and his size 14 boots didn't fit ! Monseigner Money Spider didn't mean to at all, but he landed on the photocopier - a great soft landing from his fall ! Monseigner Money Spider pressed the button "START" ... Ooops ! three sheets of paper into the air started to depart. With the photocopying speed switched to "FAST" - a splash of ink went quickly past. Off the printer set ... printing more money than even a money spider could spend in an entire year, I bet ! Until four, the photocopier printed more and more. By five, Monseigner Money Spider could hardly be seen alive ! As quick as a flash, Monseigner Money Spider tried to put the cash back - but a million pounds fell out of Monseigner Money Spider's sack ! As on a thread, he dangled ... in his pockets his stolen loose change jangled ! At six in the evening, you couldn't see Monseigneur Money Spider anymore ... underneath a pile of tenners as high as the bank vault door ! With all the cash that the out of control money - making machine printed, Monseigneur Money Spider was immeadiately minted ! The stakes were so high, he caught a fly - lucky, 'cos he'd never be working again as a bank manager's pet building cobwebs in the sky. The bank manager, naturally, was delighted as punch - though all the money from the bank had disappeared when he returned from lunch !
Monseigneur Money Spider's Easy Money Maths Assessment
Here is a Maths game not so hard to do ... in fact, it's easy as one plus one - which, of course, is two ! Look at your syllabus (the subjects covered in your curriculum) and makr them along this continuum line below. Which topics do you find the hardest and the easiest to do ? EASY...................................................................................................................................................................HARD
A Fistfight Over A Fistful of Fivers
How many £5 notes would be in the following amounts ?
30 65 120 150 225 900 750 345 525 400 600 800 1000
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Spidery Clap Trap
When Monseigneur Money Spider built a web, to catch all the flies in the bank, he hardly expected that the Bank manager would join in the prank. Very soon, he too was caught - red - handed with much more money than he ought. As well as one or two tasty insects that Monseigneur Money Spider picked up for tea, he also caught a five pound note, that wrapped in the thread, couldn't get free. Soon, he was having a really swinging good time, dangling above the gold bars, hung on a spidery string line. As he span around on his spidery thread, he abseiled down the bank vault and almost crashed his head ! His spidery web made a great trampoline ... for climbing upto the windows, when they needed to have a clean. Monseigneur Money Spider had never seen so much money - as when he made a spider's web from the bank door to the dunny !
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The Biggest Ever Living Spider's Trip Around The World Wide Web
The biggest ever spider decided to take a trip ... he set off from his home in the Amazon jungle and across the Pacific Ocean did flip. The biggest ever spider had legs that really were quite long - so he needed an enormous web which could hold his weight - that wouldn't break and would be incredibly strong. The world wide web was bigger than a trampoline - it had to be in order to hold the biggest spider that had ever been seen. Off he set, bouncing at quite a height - onto Mount Kilamanjaro, where he stopped off for the night. Once the spider had rested, the elasticity of the web, he tested. He bounced up and down to check the elasticity and within minutes, ended up in Mexico city ! Once he'd made it around the globe, the biggest ever living spider, hoped that his next journey would be considerably wider. Perhaps, even big enough to take in the entire universe, so he could trip between the planets and the moons, of course. The world wide web might even cover the hole in the ozone layer, and cast a shadow across Earth, making it much greyer. I wonder if any of the world's computer users know, how many wider spiders are making the internet go ?
Maths On The World Wide Web
Find ten maths sites that the biggest ever spider could use on the internet to help with the following maths problems.
1. If the biggest ever spider travelled at a speed of 25 km per day, and his journey lasted two years, how far did he travel ?
2. Imagine that the biggest ever spider fell through a hole made in the world wide web by Mount Everest. If he fell at a speed of 5 km / minute, how long did it take him to reach the bottom of Mount Everest ? (To answer this question, you need to find out from the www. how high Mount Everest is). Give your answer in minutes and seconds.
3. The biggest ever spider couldn't swim, so he used the world wide web as a bridge to help him. If he was 0.05 of the width of a river that he crossed on his journey around the www., which was 3 km wide, how big was the spider ? What fraction and percentage is this ?
4. The biggest ever spider was so hairy that he had fifty times more bristles that all the coconuts in the Amazon jungle where he lived. If every coconut in the jungle had 150 bristles and there were 500 coconuts in the jungle, how many bristles did the biggest ever spider have ? Write an algebraic equation to show your working out.
5. How many bristles is that on each of the biggest ever spider's bristly legs ?
6. If the biggest ever spider travelled 25% of the way across the equator, how far did he travel ? (To answer this question, you need to find out from the www. how long the Equator is).
Worldwide Writing Exercise
1. If you were an enormous spider and the world was covered in an enormous spider's web, where would you travel to and why ?
2. Other than travel, what might the world's biggest ever spider use a world wide web for ?
3. How might the world wide web help you to find out about the places that you visit ?
4. Find ten sites on the internet that may be able to help the biggest ever spider find it's way around the globe.
5. Name ten mountains that would be covered by an imaginary world wide web.
6. Name three oceans that the biggest ever spider would cross using a world wide web.
7. What fishes might the biggest ever spider use the world wide web to catch ?
8. Name three different ethnic groups that the world biggest ever spider could possibly meet whilst travelling on a www.
9. Name three different continents that the world biggest ever spider could possibly cross whilst travelling on a www.
10. What might a spider eat on his trip around the globe on a world wide web ?
* Teacher's note - this would be a good classroom ice - breaker for a lesson on the internet (whatever subject is being taught).
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Answers : 1. 2 x 365 x 25 = 18, 250 km
2. From Amrita the Ant, Everest is 22 834 m high, therefore (22 834 / 1000 = 22.834) / 5 = 4.5668 min = 4 mins 30 secs.
3. a) 3000 / 100 x 5 = 150 m b) 5 % = 1 / 20 th
4. x = no. of spidery bristles, x = 150 x 500 = 75, 000
5. 75 , 000 / 6 = 12, 500
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