Bowl by the hour or the game?
What should you consider when choosing how to pay? Which do you expect will be the best deal? How do you know?
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Home team advantage?
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Even before your students check out the graphic below, ask them whether they think a game played at home gives their team an advantage. If so, how much of an advantage? Enjoy t...
What's interesting about this number?
Why did we put it on YummyMath today?
What do you notice about this number? What do you wonder? Do you think that this happens often in a year?
Holiday shipping
Now that the shopping season has begun, it's time to get the packages to your homes. Two big companies take care of a lot of that shipping. How do they manage that?
The mechanis...
Wrapping presents on the diagonal
Dr. Sara Santos is a popular mathematician and speaker on mathematics. She has worked out a method for wrapping boxes (rectangular prisms) as efficiently as possible. (W...
2 New Macy's Parade balloons
As the Macy's Parade returns to public viewing, here are two balloons that Macy's artists have added. Can you figure out their dimensions? Macy's give their dimensions in bicycle lengths, taxi w...
I should have invested!
People who have invested their money in the stock markets could have made a lot of money in recent years. Students use yearly percent increase data to decide which stock: Apple, Dis...
Which sale would you rather use?
In this short activity, students decide if these two sales are the same. If not, which is better? How would you explain this to someone?
Watson saves
Ben Watson, former American Football tight end, made a remarkable play in 2005 that will forever remain one of the all-time great tackles.
The play was in the 2005 AFC divisional...
Death Valley, CA - How hot was it?
This picture may have been Photoshopped and not be a true representation.
We blacked out the Fahrenheit reading of this temperature sign at the Death Valley Visitor ...