Wind chill
The weather forecasters tell us what the wind chill temperature will feel like. How do they figure out that number? In this activity students use the National Weather System chart to ...
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I need help raking my leaves
Brian has spent too much time thinking about his leaves. He's worried about raking them alone and thinking about how long the job would take if people helped. In this activity students see the inverse...
Happy Friday the 13th!
Don't worry, 13 is a Happy number! Students learn a new function and test whether a number is Happy or Sad.
What is my best gasoline option?
Jason Kibbe, 6-8 Gifted Support Teacher in Chambersburg, PA, sent us this timely investigation.
Should I pay the membership fee and get BJ's gasoline? Should I just buy the ch...
Mardi Gras, 2023
Updated for 2023!
Tuesday, February 21, 2023, will be the day before Ash Wednesday and the start of the season of Lent. Mardi Gras is a last hoorah and is celebrated throughout the world ...
The LUGE
This is one of the fastest Olympic sports. Lugers, on tiny sleds, zoom down a solid ice track at fantastic speeds, hold their bodies in an aerodynamically optimized position while fighting extre...
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?
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 ...
The new R-naught number
There's a number used to quantify how fast a virus will spread, the R-naught number. As the coronavirus spread though out the world, we saw how the threat of infection was measured and und...
Does an NFL player's draft order mean a lot for the player?
Updated!
This Thursday, April 27th, college football players will be awaiting knowing their futures in the NFL.Every spring, roughly 250 college football players are drafted by NFL teams throug...