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Mathematical Gift Wrapping
🎁🎁In this updated activity, students will use math to explore two methods of wrapping gifts, including the mathematical method demonstrated by Sara Santos. They'll calculate the dimensions of...
Algebra
Number Sense
Grades 7–8
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...
Algebra
Number Sense
Grades 6–HS
Civil rights marches, how do you count a crowd?
On October 16, 1995, perhaps a million black men gathered for the Million Man March on Washington. This was 32 years after Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his...
Number Sense
Geometry
Grades 4–HS