Happy National D🍩nut Day!
We have 2 activities to support this silly, but awesome holiday -- National Donut Day (June 5th) :
How much have donuts changed?
Students become fam...
Math and Food
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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...
Leslie's Yummy Pumpkin Pie
Every year more and more people come to our house on Thanksgiving morning for my (Leslie's)famous pumpkin pie and a hike in the nearby woods. This year 23 people have already accepted. How man...
Huge Alaskan Vegetables
The annual Alaskan State Fair has just been completed. As usual, there were some amazingly big vegetables that won the agriculture prizes.
Evidently, even though the growing season in Alaska is s...
Will I have enough stuff?
Thursday, Aug 10th, is National S'mores Day!
In my pantry I have one new box of Graham crackers, one bag of 6 full-sized Hershey bars, and one bag of marshmallows. Friends are meeting me at the b...
Ice Cream Day - July 16th; 2 activities
Algebra
Number Sense
Math and Social Studies
Math and Food
Holidays and Annual Events
Current events
Ratio and Proportion
All the ice cream that you can eat
All the ice cream that you can eat for only 10 cents! Wow, that's a great deal! How great a deal was tha...
Can Joey and Miki do it again?
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The MLE - Major League Eating is a World organization that oversees speed eating contests.
Entrants to the various competitions must be...
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...
How many hot chocolate scoops do I need?
Even though it is now Spring, here in New England we are still chilled and hope that some hot chocolate will warm us up.
Clicking on the above image will take you to Brian's movie of makin...
Souvenirs and concessions
Brian has introduced systems of equations with easy, motivating problems that deal with the cost of stadium purchases for food and souvenirs. These systems of equations puzzles are so intuitive that...