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What did Jackson do to Mike's notecards? 

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What did Jackson do to Mike's notecards? 

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see part 1 first, this is how it is done plz rate and comment

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Mike's teacher wants him to make 10 notecards by the end of the day or he will lose 10 points off his grade. Jackson crumples up Mikes notecards and put them in his pocket. He manges to redo the assignment before the end of school. Mike and Nora go to the soccer game. Mike makes change for a quarter from a five dollar bill for Jackson with the assistance of Nora.

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Jackson is mad because Mike made his quarter disappear. Mike chooses Nora to be his magician's assistant. They decide on a magic trick to use with Jackson.

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Why couldn't Mike check out a book at the public library? 

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Why couldn't Mike check out a book at the public library? 

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What trick did Mike show the kids at lunch? 

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What trick did Mike show the kids at lunch? 

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What was the only thing at The White Rabbit that didn't look old? 

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What was the only thing at The White Rabbit that didn't look old? 

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How did Jackson win the quarter that Mike made disappear? 

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How did Jackson win the quarter that Mike made disappear? 

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How to Do the Coin Vanish Trick | Coin & Card Magic

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Like these Magic lessons !!! Check out the official app http://apple.co/1L2R6LR Magician Essentials: Deck of Cards: http://amzn.to/1IPakDj $1 Coin: http://amzn.to/1AoWqok Magic Cane: http://amzn.to/1R9SXhJ Appearing Flowers: http://amzn.to/1EnBklz Magic Handkerchief: http://amzn.to/1AjCLqm Disappearing Coins: http://amzn.to/1F1xora Bite Out Coin Trick: http://amzn.to/1doN55Z Magic Wand: http://amzn.to/1Fsuf78 Watch more How to Do Coin & Card Magic Tricks videos: http://www.howcast.com/videos/504634-How-to-Do-the-Coin-Vanish-Trick-Coin-and-Card-Magic The next thing we're going to learn here, guys, it's one of the oldest effects in magic.

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Mike learns a vanishing coin trick and practices at home. The next day at school everything goes wrong. He hasn't started his book report notes. He shows Jackson his coin trick.

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Jackson makes fun of Mike for spending time with Nora after school. Nora and Mike go to the library and find a books about magic for a book report. He has an overdue book and can't check it out. His dad takes him The White Rabbit and Mr. Zerlin gives him a "The Book of Secrets" to read.

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What did Mr. Zerlin do when Mike and his dad stopped by his shop? 

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What did Mr. Zerlin do when Mike and his dad stopped by his shop? 

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How to Do the Floating Coffee Cup Trick | Magic Tricks

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Like these Magic lessons !!! Check out the official app http://apple.co/1L2R6LR Magician Essentials: Deck of Cards: http://amzn.to/1IPakDj $1 Coin: http://amzn.to/1AoWqok Magic Cane: http://amzn.to/1R9SXhJ Appearing Flowers: http://amzn.to/1EnBklz Magic Handkerchief: http://amzn.to/1AjCLqm Disappearing Coins: http://amzn.to/1F1xora Bite Out Coin Trick: http://amzn.to/1doN55Z Magic Wand: http://amzn.to/1Fsuf78 Watch more Office Magic Tricks Revealed videos: http://bit.ly/1AjDE2b [music] Male 1: Hey, Heather, could I borrow your coffee, actually?

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Climb through a hole in a sheet of paper

By David, 28 April 2015 Activity

Most people are a lot larger than a piece of paper. But in this activity, you'll be able to squeeze through a hole in a sheet of paper. With practice, you might even be able to fit through a hole in a business card!

You will need:

What to do:

1. Fold a piece of paper in half like a book. Put the paper on the table with folded side closest to you.

2. Cut into the folded side, about 1cm from the left hand edge, and start cutting straight towards the far side of the paper. Stop cutting about 1cm before the opposite edge, so you don't cut all the way across the paper.

3. Turn the paper around so the fold is away from you. Cut in around 1cm from the last cut, and stop about 1cm before you get to the folded side.

4. Alternate between cutting from the folded side, and the side opposite. Keep your cuts 1cm apart, and always stop cutting 1cm before you get to the far side of the paper. When you have finished, you should have a zig-zag of paper.

5. Look along the folded side of the paper. You should have a series of loops of paper. Cut along the fold of each of the loops EXCEPT the first loop and the last loop. Leave these intact.

6. Carefully pull the paper apart, being careful not to tear it. You should have a large loop. Now try to fit yourself through the loop!

7. If you can't fit through the loop, try making another one with either:
A larger piece of paper, or putting the cuts closer together (try 5 mm apart, and stopping 5mm from the far side)

If you are still having trouble, print out our template ( available in pdf or Word document) and simply cut along all the black lines.

What's happening?

If you look at the cuts you've made in the paper, it looks like a maze. But you've actually turned the sheet of paper into a really long loop that should be long enough to go all the way around you.

The area of the sheet of paper remains the same throughout the activity - you haven't changed the size of the piece of paper because none of the cuts went all the way across the paper. But cutting the paper made the perimeter (edge) longer. If there are enough cuts, the perimeter is large enough to go all the way around you (in fact there are two edges on the strip of paper, so it goes around you twice).

Applications:

For any given area, there is a minimum size for the perimeter (edge), but no maximum. The shape with the smallest perimeter is always a circle. Any other shape with the same area as a circle has a longer perimeter. But there's no shape with the longest perimeter. No matter what sized shape you choose, there's always a way to make another shape with the same area but a longer perimeter.

For example, a 10 x 10 cm square has a perimeter of 40 cm, and an area of 100 square centimetres. A rectangle that's 1 cm wide and 100 cm long has exactly the same area, but has a perimeter of over 2 metres! And it's also the same area as a 1 mm wide strip that's 10 metres long.

A similar idea applies to the volume and surface area of solid shapes. A sphere has the smallest surface area for any volume, but you can make the surface area as big as you want. This can be very useful, especially for moving heat around.

Heat is lost through the surface of an object, so to cool something down it should have a large surface area. Radiators in cars have many twists and turns to increase their surface area, so that they can get rid of heat coming from the engine of a car. Heat sinks in computers and the pipes on the back of a fridge work in much the same way. Oil-filled electric heaters also have large surface areas to radiate heat, although in this case the large surface area is designed to heat up the room, rather than cool down the heater.

More information:

What is the surface area of a person?
Is it possible to make a shape with infinite perimeter?
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Climb through a hole in a sheet of paper - Double Helix

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By David, 28 April 2015 Activity Most people are a lot larger than a piece of paper. But in this activity, you'll be able to squeeze through a hole in a sheet of paper. With practice, you might even be able to fit through a hole in a business card!

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Texas Bluebonnet Award interview with Kate Egan, author of The Vanishing Coin.

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Mike rehearsed floating a cup in air at home to show his friends at lunch the next day. His friends want him to play soccer again. Kids enjoyed his magic trick at lunch.

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Mike loved riddles.  Mr. Zerlin asked "Can you cut a hole in this paper big enought to walk through?"He worked until he could walk through the hole in a piece of paper. Next he learned how to make a paper cup hover in mid air.

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What did Mike have to do first, before Mr. Zerlin showed him his floating cup trick ?

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What did Mike have to do first, before Mr. Zerlin showed him his floating cup trick ?

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How did Mike and Nora discover the White Rabbit was a magic shop and not an antique shop? 

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How did Mike and Nora discover the White Rabbit was a magic shop and not an antique shop? 

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The next day Mike wants to go back to The White Rabbit. Mrs. Weiss takes him and Nora and goes across the street to grade papers. A man with wild hair introduces himself as Mr. Zerlin. Nora and Mike go into a room with a banner that says Secrets Inside. They find supplies for a magic shop. Mr. Zerlin shows them a card trick. Mysteriously Mr. Zerlin says,  "I will teach you a trick if you answer my riddle."

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Where did Mike and Nora go right before they discovered  The White Rabbit? 

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Where did Mike and Nora go right before they discovered  The White Rabbit? 

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Mike and Nora go with Mrs. Finn to her last minute dentist appointment. He notices that many shops in their Maine town have closed and the town is getting ready for the winter season. Mike gets mad when he only has vowels in the Scrabble game he is playing with Nora. She asks if they can go for a walk around the block instead of waiting. They notice a shop called the White Rabbit and go in. They wonder why they never knew there was a joke shop in town. Mike finds $10 in his pocket and buys two sets of wind-up plastic teeth. When he showed Jackson the teeh they split in two and broke.

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Nine-year-old Mike Weiss is in the principal's office.  He is in fourth grade and he gets in trouble because he can't sit still.
Mrs. Warren, the school secretary is nice and lets him have a chocolate kiss.
Mrs. Canfield is his teacher.
Nora is the girl next door to his who recently moved to his neighborhood. She is gifted. Their parents are good friends and they spend time after school at each other's homes.
Jackson Jacobs is Mike's enemy since birth.
Mike's best friends are Charlie and Zack.
Jackson asks why he isn't playing soccer this year.  He says he needs to focus on school work.
Mrs. Scott is the principal and is going to meet with his parents to find a way for him to succeed in school.
What is wrong with him? EVERYTHING!