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This year, Buffalo, New York, has had more than 100 inches of snow this winter. We imagine that the height of the tunnel to people's homes is getting...
Updated! When soccer great, Lionel Messi played for Barcelona, he had one of the highest paid contracts of any athlete in the world. He had a $674 million...
Check out our Christmas Tree! We need to buy lights for the tree. Without calculating, guess how many feet of lights we will need. What information would help...
It is really dark out now. Why is that? Students appreciate how their latitude effects the darkness of their late afternoon location as they study the earth's tilt...
In this problem based activity students first guess and then try to calculate whether they will have enough paper to wrap this present without taping pieces of wrapping...
The harvest must be nearing completion now and growers are selling their product to make cranberry juice, jelly, sauce, and of course, fresh berries in time for...
On the morning of November 8, 2022, many of us will be able to see the last full lunar eclipse until March 2025. Luckily, many of us will...
In this activity students compare team wins with team salaries in the four major North American sports ... the NBA, NFL, MLB and NHL. Students use data from...
Gumball Machine Problem from Brian Marks on Vimeo This problem is a little puzzle to get your students thinking, estimating, and calculating. We've given you a pdf file...
I have to go to the bathroom pretty badly. I have to admit that I have been holding it in for a while. Finally! I see a bathroom...
Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky) 50 years ago we landed on the moon. We've established a space station and flown astronauts and guests to live there. Private industries have created...
Probably most of us have heard of and even used hexadecimal color codes. Don't you wonder why their number descriptions really make sense? In this activity we first...