Holiday Candy Sales
In this updated activity, students will analyze U.S. holiday candy sales data to calculate the approximate amount spent on candy for each holiday. Using real-world percentage...
Holidays and Annual Events
Genres
Grade
Mashed Potatoes Proportions
🥔 "Why do we never have enough mashed potatoes at Thanksgiving?" In this updatedactivity, students will dive into the math of mashed potatoes planning to ensu...
Ghostly Measurements
In this activity, students will explore how to design a ghost costume 👻👻 by reasoning through sheet dimensions, calculating the best fit for different heights, and interpreting ...
Will sending you back to school this year cost a fortune?
With high inflation rates, supply shortages, and rethinking what is essential spending, back to school spending might be different this year. Back-to-school spending is huge and students mi...
Summer Solstice, the longest day
Sunrise on summer solstice at Stonehenge
On Wednesday, June 21st, at 10:57 am EDT, the Earth's North Pole will be tilted as far towards the Sun as it will ever be in the ye...
Father's Day and Juneteenth; 3 Activities
Algebra
Number Sense
Math and Social Studies
Math and Food
Holidays and Annual Events
Current events
Ratio and Proportion
Data and probability
For Father's Day (Links to different activities)
Thank you Mother and Father for all of those diapers (2015) - Students compare the cost of buying disposable vers...
Earth Day (April 22) Actions for Our Planet
Algebra
Number Sense
Geometry
Math and Science
Math and Social Studies
Holidays and Annual Events
Current events
Ratio and Proportion
3-act tasks
Data and probability
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Chocolate heart-shaped raspberry cake
For Valentine's Day, bake a cake!
Students calculate base area or volume of cakes made from 2 cake pan sizes and observe how the volume of the cake changes with the increased pan size. &nbs...
Do I have enough wrapping paper?
In this problem based activity students first guess and then try to calculate whether they will have enough paper to wrap this present without taping pieces of wrapping paper together.
Con...
Will one roll be enough?
Students can use the man or the basket as a reference as they try to approximate the size of these gifts and how much wrapping paper will actually be needed. Approximation, surface are...