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...
Holidays and Annual Events
Genres
Grade
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
Veterans Day, 2023
Algebra
Math and Social Studies
Holidays and Annual Events
Current events
Ratio and Proportion
Data and probability
On Veterans Day we honor the men and women that have served in the Armed Forces of the United States. There are now 16.2 million living veterans. We found these maps that show where veterans liv...
Nobel Prizes
The Nobel Prizes have just been awarded. This is the medal that is given to the winners.
What do you know about the Nobel Prize? Who do you know who has received one?
Alfred Nobel was a ...
Indigenous Peoples or Columbus Day
When Columbus landed in Guanahani (renamed San Salvador, Bahama Islands by Columbus), he began the European settlement of the New World. Guanahani was inhabited by the
Taíno people and...
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...