How steep is this treadmill?
Every year, even older students still get mixed up about horizontal and vertical slopes. Students do understand “rise over run,” but when it comes to horizontal and vertical slopes, things...
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Fish Tale
🐠In this updated activity, students will apply the Pythagorean Theorem in both 2D and 3D (basic) contexts to ex...
A Parametric Heart
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In this updated activity, students will explore parametric equations to graph a heart shape using sine and cosine functions. Begin with the starter activity to set the stage (o...
Mathematical Gift Wrapping
🎁🎁In this updated activity, students will use math to explore two methods of wrapping gifts, including the mathematical method demonstrated by S...
Candy Count: Which Bag Holds the Most Candy
🎃Leverage your students' Halloween enthusiasm with this activity, where they’ll calculate the volume of various trick-or-treat bags—ranging from rectangular prisms to spheres, cylinders, and con...
Earth Day Actions for Our Planet (April 22)
We have 16 activities that you could use for Earth Day!
April 22nd is Earth Day. Help your students become activists for our planet? We have ...
A geodesic icosahedron, the Times Square New Year's eve ball
Image by kjpargeter on Freepik It's a gorgeous ball, covered with Waterford Crystal triangles, shaped as a geodesic icosahedron. Every New Year's Eve it descends in Times Square to ma...
Indigenous Peoples or Columbus Day
When Columbus landed in Guanahani (renamed San Salvador, Bahama Islands by Columbus), he began the European settlement of the New World. Guanahani was inhabited by the
Taíno people and...
Lego Fireman +
At the Toys R Us store, we saw an amazing LEGO creation. He was a life-sized LEGO fireman with a walkie-talkie, an oxygen tank and even an oxygen...
Autumnal Equinox 2023
Updated for 2023!
Saturday, September 23, 2023 at 06:50 UTC (2:50 am EST),
will be the Autumnal Equinox. It is the time of year when an imaginary plane would pass through both the Earth...