We aren’t supposed to play with our food, so these guys really broke the rules with a cannon that launches tacos. The Voodoo Taco restaurant in Omaha, Nebraska fires foil-wrapped tacos into the air like cannonballs. They built it to send food to hungry fans at University of Nebraska-Omaha hockey games. If you can stop watching the game and look up in the sky, you could catch your next dinner.
Wee ones: If the cannon shoots 5 tacos into the air, what numbers do you say to count them?
Little kids: If you’ve launched the first 9 tacos out of 12, how many more do you need to launch? Bonus: Which flies faster, a taco flying 42 miles an hour or a taco flying 45 miles an hour?
Big kids: If the user launches a set of 12 tacos, refills the cannon and launches the next 12, how many tacos fly through the air? Bonus: If 1/4 of those are caught by lucky fans, how many get caught?
The sky’s the limit: If you launch 3 tacos and the 1st travels 300 feet, the 2nd travels 80 feet, and the 3rd lands halfway between them, how far does the 3rd taco fly?
Answers:
Wee ones: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
Little kids: 3 more tacos. Bonus: The 45-mile-an-hour one.
Big kids: 24 tacos. Bonus: 6 tacos.
The sky’s the limit: 190 feet. The tacos land 220 feet apart, so a taco landing halfway will land 110 feet past the closer one and 110 feet closer than the farther one.
