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There have been a lot of cruise ship mishaps and disasters this year. While these are in the news, let your students consider how these floating cities manage...
The two Voyager space probes are in the news recently as they approach the edge of our solar system. Scientist can tell that the Voyager's environments are changing....
Luckily, we’ve passed 12/21/2012 and the world is still here and we’ve made it into the start of the next Mayan calendar cycle ... the next B’ak’tun. The...
Brian loves Twinkies and the news that Hostess is going out of business has upset him terribly. He needs his Twinkies. Twinkies last forever. Right? He's going to...
Brian Shoemaker, a Newton, MA mathematics teache r, saw this Dunkin Donuts Mazda traveling down the road. He wondered if that size coffee cup could really have coffee...
Keep your students up on what's happening in space while analyzing Curiosity the Mars Rover's speed, the speed of a radio transmission from Mars, and the deceleration involved...
I need help! My daughter is traveling in Cambodia and we are supposed to Skype just before her dinner time in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. What time is that...
This activity could be used as an introduction to trig ratios. Students figure out the approximate length of the huge branch that I have to fell for safety...
How long will it take me to download the video game? This can be done as a 3 Act Task. To get started simply show the video and...
Students ponder the relationship between place latitudes and average January temperatures while they try to discover a correlation. Is this a linear or near linear relationship? … averaging,...
Jeremy Lin is the New York Knicks most startling player. His story is exciting in that he graduated from Harvard in 2010 and was not immediately drafted into...
This activity/post is a little different than our usual posts. We look at a particular math concept and consider how to use context, models and CCSS math practices...