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The new Godzilla movie is out at theaters.  ...
There's a lot of misinformation out there about the cost to consumers of CFL and LED bulbs and the savings in energy and money that could be realized.
Let your students "do the math" and realiz...
Let your student study American Idol viewing figures over the last eleven seasons. Students compare historical season premier and season finale audience size in several different ways to determi...
Five friends who skateboard and video tape made up a strange dance one afternoon and filmed it on February 2nd (look it up on youtube!). Now the whole world knows them and their da...
There have been a lot of cruise ship mishaps and disasters this year. While these are in the news, let your students consider how these floating cities manage their resources and which of their need...
Time to give students some authentic math on a topic they will surely be interested in ... Starbucks! We ask and answer a few questions in this activity.
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Act One:
The world record for the tallest structure made of Legos was set in Seoul, South Korea. Check out this video on youtube!
What other questions do you have?
Act T...
Students ponder the relationship between place latitudes and average January temperatures while they try to discover a correlation. Is this a linear or near linear relationship? … averaging, mis...
Tim Tebow is the talk of the sporting world. This Saturday he goes up against Tom Brady and the Patriots in the Playoffs. I keep hearing about "Tebow Time" and I wonder at what point in ...
Lately the news is filled with talk of the Euro, US foreign debt, the fragility of European monetary systems, and the interdependence of all of these crisis.
In this activity students become fami...