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The history of the Dairy Queen franchise began with this ad in Illinois in 1938: All the ice cream that you can eat for only 10 cents! We...
Friday, June 5th, is National Donut Day . We have 2 activities to support this silly holiday. How much have doughnuts changed? Students become familiar with the word...
Joe Macken is a truck driver from upstate New York. Back in 2004, when he was 41, he went into his basement with some balsa wood and started...
Teams are competing in the playoffs, and the NBA Finals are right around the corner. Let's do a little sports history and data analysis through the context of...
Memorial Day is a US holiday observed on the last Monday in May. Who are we honoring? How did the holiday come about? Isn't Memorial Day usually on...
Mother’s Day is right around the corner, and that means big business for the greeting card, flower, and restaurant industries. In this activity, students calculate the average Mother's...
Which is a better deal, cloth or disposable diapers? How much did you cost your parents in diapers? In the future, how much could your kid's diapers cost?...
In 2025, Cristiano Ronaldo signed a jaw-dropping 2-year deal worth over $710 million, making him the highest-paid athlete per year in sports history. In this updated activity, students...
"How many Peeps do you think are sold for Easter in the U.S.?" In this updated activity, students start by making their own guesses for the number of...
The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race is an annual event in which mushers and teams of 12-16 dogs race across Alaska from Anchorage to Nome, in the cold...
5 Activities for π day! What is π? The logic of finding the perimeters of inscribed and circumscribed polygons as the number of sides to the polygons increases....
On a cold and snowy day in Boston about ten years ago, two chefs created a huge Key Lime pie to remind the frozen people of the Northeast...