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Candy Count: Which Bag Holds the Most Candy
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 cones to discover which...

Number Sense Geometry High School
Chocolate Milk Account
Chocolate Milk Account

🔔 Free Trial Alert! In this activity, students will explore a school milk account where money is deposited and deducted as chocolate milk is purchased over time. But...

Algebra Number Sense Grades 5–HS Free sample
Money Making Movies
Money Making Movies

Do you enjoy watching movies?🎬 Have you ever wondered just how much money your favorite films make at the box office? Worldwide box office income is compared for...

Algebra Number Sense
Sugary Record
Sugary Record

How big is the world's largest cotton candy sculpture? 🍭 Ali Spagnola set out to break the Guinness World Record with a massive cotton candy sculpture. Kick off...

Math and Food Grades 5–7
Starbucks Sales and Nutrition
Starbucks Sales and Nutrition

Kick off the activity with starter slides that spark curiosity by asking students if they recognize the Starbucks logo and how many locations they think are in the...

Number Sense Math and Food Grades 5–HS
Happy National D🍩nut Day!
Happy National D🍩nut Day!

We have 2 activities to support this silly, but awesome holiday -- National Donut Day (June 5th) : How much have donuts changed? Students become familiar with the...

Math and Food Holidays and Annual Events
How much does America spend for Mother’s Day?
How much does America spend for Mother’s Day?

Updated in April 2026 with new data; see the answer key. How much do we spend on Mother's Day? Use the Mother's Day event to engage your students...

Number Sense Math and Social Studies Grades 3–6
Will I pay less if I buy more?
Will I pay less if I buy more?

image designed by macrovector / Freepik This activity can be used in a large range of grade levels. Your class can work on percents, linear equations or piecewise...

Algebra Number Sense
Leslie's Yummy Pumpkin Pie
Leslie's Yummy Pumpkin Pie

Every year more and more people come to our house on Thanksgiving morning for my (Leslie's)famous pumpkin pie and a hike in the nearby woods. This year 23...

Algebra Number Sense Grades 3–5
Huge Alaskan Vegetables
Huge Alaskan Vegetables

The annual Alaskan State Fair has just been completed. As usual, there were some amazingly big vegetables that won the agriculture prizes. Evidently, even though the growing season...

Algebra Number Sense Grades 3–7
Can Joey and Miki do it again?
Can Joey and Miki do it again?

The MLE - M ajor L eague E ating is a World organization that oversees speed eating contests. Entrants to the various competitions must be members of the...

Algebra Number Sense Grades 4–HS
Father's Day and Juneteenth; 3 Activities
Father's Day and Juneteenth; 3 Activities

For Father's Day (Links to different activities) Thank you, mother and father, for all of those diapers - Students compare the cost of buying disposable versus cloth diapers....

Algebra Number Sense Grades 3–HS