Drill Bit Fractions
In this updated activity, students explore how drill bits are measured using fractions of an inch. They will use equivalent fractions to compare drill bit sizes, fill in missing numerators, and ...
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Lots of Pieces
🧩In this updated activity, students will explore estimation and addition with a collection of puzzles. It’s important to start with the starter slides, where st...
Mother's Day
Algebra
Number Sense
Geometry
Math and Social Studies
Math and Food
Holidays and Annual Events
Math and Art
Current events
Ratio and Proportion
3-act tasks
Data and probability
Funny
Wow factor
How much do we spend on Mother's Day - Use the Mother's Day event to engage your students in approximating, reasoning, and investigating as students estimate how mu...
How many hot chocolate scoops do I need?
Even though it is now Spring, here in New England we are still chilled and hope that some hot chocolate will warm us up.

Clicking on the above image will take you to Brian's movie of makin...
Giant beach towel
Beaches are starting to open again. Bring summertime smiles and hopes to your class with this activity.
Towel project by Misael Soto.
Act One: Check out this beach towel! Wh...
Man paid in 500 pounds of greasy pennies!
Algebra
Number Sense
Math and Social Studies
Current events
Ratio and Proportion
3-act tasks
Data and probability
A man from Georgia, Andreas Flaten, finally received his last paycheck from his disgruntled employer. He had been owed that last check for several months and was having difficult...
Candy deals
Number Sense
Math and Food
Holidays and Annual Events
Ratio and Proportion
3-act tasks
Data and probability
We found big mixed bags of candy at really good prices ... we think.
Students are asked to decide which would be the best deal and the worst deal on candy. They can also create t...
How long would it take to build this underground house and pool?
The building of this underground house and pool was presented by Cayote Person and his partner, Mark Lavins, on their youtube channel, "Brave Wilderness." At BraveWilderness.com the busin...
Will Damarious Randall have to pay big?
Warriors won the NBA Championships. Randall won't have to buy jerseys!
The Cleveland Brown's safety player, Damarious Randall, posted this tweet. Its been ...
BIG Snickers bar
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Act 1 - Big question =Â How many times bigger than a regular Snickers bar is this?
What info would you like to know?
How are you going to judge how much bigger this ...