Bowling Deals
Is there a general way to figure how much its going to cost you (and your friends) to go bowling? Should you pay per game? Or bowl per hour? Don't forget that you'll need to rent sho...
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New Horizons spacecraft just flew by a really distant asteroid
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 video below is the song that he wrot...
Weird wing prices
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Danny's Wok in Philadelphia has a huge price list for ordering their famous chicken wings.
Why did they write t...
Macy's Thanksgiving Parade 2019
As we get ready for next week's holiday, students can study a map of the annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade, describe, measure and hypothesize why this route was chosen and then calculate...
Fine
TJ Watt was fined for roughing the passer. Check out the tweet from Darren Rovell and engage your students in a familiar context for a classic percent problem - solving for the "whole....
Extra point or 2-point conversion - Updated
In 2015 the NFL changed the extra point kick distance to 33 yards and now teams have a tough decision to make, go for one or two points? The one point extra point is no longer a given with...
Fantasy Football
In the midst of another NFL season, we introduce students to Fantasy Football. Students first calculate football points given touchdowns, yardage gains and interceptions. They are t...
Sol LeWitt's pyramid - How might you count those blocks?
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. &n...
Nike's latest bet
Nike has just chosen a surprising person to represent the 30th anniversary of their slogan, "Just Do It". Colin Kaepernick, past quarterback of the San Francisco 49ers, has been a subjec...
Madden Glitch
It's the talk of the town. Madden video games have had some issues. Check this one out.
Here's one that has Le'Veon Bell seeming to fly from the Bear's goal line to the center...