Mom's matzo ball soup
Passover begins this year on Wednesday evening, April 5th, 2023, with a Passover seder dinner. Passover is one of the three high holidays in the Jewish calendar and celebrates the Exodus of Jews f...
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Shamrock Shake
For Saint Patrick's Day add a little nutrition math to your celebration. In this post we look at calories, carbohydrates, sugars, fats, and proteins to decide what would be left for our day's ...
Methane math
Updated! Carbon dioxide and methane are our two most prevalent human-contributed greenhouse gases. This holstein cow is one of many huge contributors to our methane production. &nb...
Father's Day blueberry surprise
Sunday is Father's Day and there is still time to have a tiny fraction review in the guise of celebrating Father's Day.
This is a short activity that asks students to change the amounts in a bl...
Big gulp
Do you or your students love sugary drinks? What if it were against the law to order a large sugary drink where you lived? On September 13th, 2012 the New York City Health Department ban...
Cruising
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...
Twinkies
Brian loves Twinkies and the news that Hostess is going out of business has upset him terribly. He needs his Twinkies. Twinkies last forever. Right? He's going ...
Is this possible?
Brian Shoemaker, a Newton, MA mathematics teacher, saw this Dunkin Donuts Mazda traveling down the road.
He wondered if that size coffee cup could really have coffee in it. &nbs...
Chocolate Milk and Mixture
Image by FreepikChemistry experiments and algebra problems sometimes ask students to create percent mixtures or to change a mixture into a stronger or weaker solution by adding more of an...