You will need
- cardboard
- scissors
- pins
- rubber bands
Instructions
1. Cut out a card circle whose diameter is the length of an unstretched rubber
band. Use pins to attach everything together, as shown above.
2. Drag the lower rubber band around to investigate catastrophe theory.
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