Not enough mashed potatoes
Using his famous mashed potato recipe, Brian has asked students
to change decimals to fractions,
to calculate ingredient measures for various-si...
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2 Hiking Activities
How much food do you need to carry to hike the Appalacian Trail?
The AT is a hiking trail that begins in Georgia and ends on Mount Katadin, Maine. Fall is a beautiful time to be outdoors or on ...
Which gasoline is the cheapest?
When Brian traveled to Crete last summer with his wife and son on an Archaeological dig, buying gasoline for his small rental car got him wondering again.
He was pretty g...
Measuring sea level
What does this gizmo do?
We've given students a diagram of what the interior of this mechanism contains and asked them to try to decide what its purpose must be.
Then we've...
Expensive face creams
Who knew that creams for your face could be so expensive! I'm going to have to rethink what to buy for my mom. Which of these high priced cremes is most expensive?
In this activity st...
The Euro and the international debt crisis
Lately the news is filled with talk of the Euro, US foreign debt, the fragility of European monetary systems, and the interdependence of all of these crisis.
In this activity students become fami...
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