Northern Michigan University

Department of Mathematics/Computer Science

CS255 Computers for El Ed Section 01 Winter 2002

Exercise 1/17

Scavenger Hunt

Find the following on the World Wide Web.

• Find the Jason Project and what it is all about.
• Find the latest price of gold.
• Find information on the four Cs related to diamonds.
• Find information on fleas.
• Find current temperatures of the following places:
  • Stannard Rock
  • Moscow
  • Tokyo
  • Tahiti
  • Pearl Harbor.
• Find the current price of the following stocks:
  • Motorola
  • IBM
  • AT&T.
• Find a complete text of a current West Coast newspaper.
• Find a complete text of Alice in Wonderland.
• Find a complete text of Flatland.
• Find the population of Belize.
• Find the population of Two Dot Montana.
• Find the population of Luther Montana.
• Find pi to at least one-thousand digits.
• Find e to at least one-thousand digits.
• Find a picture of the Coast Guard Bark Eagle.
• Find the three most dense metals.
• Find the name of the town/city with the longest name.
• Find a decimal which is one less than its reciprocal.
• Find the NCTM Standards.
• Find out which is bigger, a google or a googleplex, and by how much.
• Find Pascal's triangle and applications of it.
• Find Pythagorean triples.
• Find Napier's bones.
• Find information on non-Euclidean geometry.
• Find statistics about each of the planets in our solar system.
• Find the distances to the three nearest stars.
• My son has a picture of a red truck on the www, find it.
• Find the area and volume of Lake Superior.
• Who in teaching conversational Spanish at The University of Michigan during Winter, 2002?
• Find the list of congresspersons from Michigan at this time.
• Find ERIC and what "it" is good for.
• Find a copy of the Declaration of Independence.
• Find how much it costs to send a one ounce letter to Calcutta, India.
• Find the latitude and longitude of Marquette and Madrid, Spain.
• Find the time of sunrise and sunset for Marquette, MI on Easter day 2002.

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