Black Friday
Black Friday is the biggest shopping day of the year! In this activity, students get a sneak peek at early Black Friday deals to calculate savings (decimals & percent discounts) and dec...
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Giant Pumpkins (2025)
🎃October is the time of year when giant pumpkin contests take place all over the world, and the pumpkins just keep getting bigger and bigger!In this activity, students will explore the latest giant pu...
The greatest amount of chocolate
In this updated activity, students compare three chocolates that look almost the same size to see which one actually gives the most chocolate. Depending on their grade level, they’ll use differe...
Scary Halloween Numbers
🎃Each year, we seem to $pend more on Halloween! Are we surprised? In this updated activity, students will look at the rising Halloween participation and record-breaking spending to make sen...
Labor Day 2025
In our usual Labor Day activity (updated for 2025), students will learn about the intended meaning of Labor Day and explore the patterns behind its historical dates. They will investigate and ju...
S'mores
August 10 is National S’mores Day! Engage your students with a fun real-world math activity involving s’mores!
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Vampire Bats
🦇In this updated activity, students explore how vampire bats drink half their body weight in blood in just 20 minutes. Using proportional reasoning and unit ...
A Parametric Heart
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In this updated activity, students will explore parametric equations to graph a heart shape using sine and cosine functions. Begin with the starter activity to set the stage (o...
Lunar New Year
In this updated activity, students will explore the unique naming system of the Lunar New Year, which combines the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches. Without expl...
Holiday Movies
In this updated activity, students will explore box office data for top-grossing Christmas movies to analyze and compare earnings. They'll practice skills like rounding, estimating, calculating di...