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We recently watched the approach of Hurricane Barry and worried about the fate of Louisiana. After the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, what would another powerful hurricane do to...
Can you see the many spirals in this design? Students calculate the size of each increasing round of squares and consider what sort of spirals these must be....
Tornadoes have devastated the Midwest, U.S. in the last few days. Alabama, Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Ohio, Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska and Mississippi have been brutally hit with these powerful...
This activity is being updated =). Could this possibly be true? What is reasonable? How do you check? Do you believe everything that you hear or read? Do...
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 business...
Pythagorean triples are not only handy for students to recognize but produce some interesting and lovely patterns. We've combined a little coloring with our Pythagorean Triple pattern investigation...
Weather temp eratures have been extreme in the World lately. Australia is experiencing an unprecedented heat wave and the U.S. is experiencing a Polar Vortex. Let your students...
552-carat diamond found in Diavik Mine, Northwest Territories, Canada Can you tell just how big this gem is? Do you know how big a carat is? What would...
Brian May, the lead guitarist of the rock band, Queen, is also an astrophysicist and one of the science team collaborators of the New Horizons space program. The...
Sol LeWitt, Four Sided Pyramid, 1999, Hirshhorn Museum Sculpture Garden, Washington DC Sol LeWitt (1928 - 2007) was a an American artist involved in Conceptual art and Minimalism....
Bats eat mosquitoes ... lots of mosquitoes. Students compare a bat's weight to how much he can consume in one night. They calculate how much they would need...
Let your students simply enjoy coloring our designs or artistically play with the whole creation of Φ designs. Simply coloring our Fibonacci patterns might allow students to ponder...