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Valentine's Day Activities (List)

Holidays and Annual Events
 Celebrate Valentine’s Day with our activities:  Have a heart (Canstruction)Students use reasoning and approximation to analyze the number of cans of food contained in this one giant heart. ...

The Most Expensive 30 Seconds

Algebra Sports Holidays and Annual Events
 This year, the 30-second Super Bowl ads will cost about 8 million dollars! Do you wonder how much one ad will cost next year? In 5 years? In 10 years? 🏈In this activity, students explore ho...

Groundhog Day

Holidays and Annual Events Data and probability Funny
On Groundhog Day (February 2nd), Punxsutawney Phil will again, with great ceremony, come out of his burrow and look for his shadow.  In this updated activity, students will explore the relative f...

Super Bowl Numerals

Number Sense Sports Holidays and Annual Events
Super Bowl numbers are appearing again! As students start getting into the current Super Bowl hype, help them to understand the notation that the sports writers and advertisements are using. Intr...

2026

Holidays and Annual Events Any time math
 As the new year approaches (where did the time go!!?), our annual activity has students explore not-so-common number categories to investigate whether 2026 fits into any of these. What is a Hars...

Labor Day 2025

Math and Social Studies Holidays and Annual Events Any time math
 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...

Mathematical Gift Wrapping

Algebra Number Sense Geometry Holidays and Annual Events 3-act tasks
🎁🎁In this updated activity, students will use math to explore two methods of wrapping gifts, including the mathematical method demonstrated by S...

Ghostly Measurements

Algebra Geometry Holidays and Annual Events
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 ...

Mother's Day

Algebra Number Sense Geometry Math and Social Studies Math and Food Holidays and Annual Events Math and Art Current events Ratio and Proportion 3-act tasks Data and probability Funny Wow factor
How much do we spend on Mother's Day - Use the Mother's Day event to engage your students in approximating, reasoning, and investigating as students estimate how mu...

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...
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