Ulmer Nest
🏠In this activity, students will dive into estimation and critical thinking as they explore ‘Ulmer Nest’. It’s essential to start with the starter slides, where student...
Geometry
Genres
Grade
Candy Count: Which Bag Holds the Most Candy
🎃Leverage your students' Halloween enthusiasm with this activity, where they’ll calculate the volume of various trick-or-treat bags—ranging from rectangular prisms to spheres, ...
Ghostly Measurements
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 ...
How much pee is in your pool (Updated)
How much pee is in your pool? 🏊🏊
After chlorination, it has been hard to measure the quantity of pollutants in pool water. A Canadian chemist, Xing-Fang Li, has ...
It's almost summer now
Algebra
Number Sense
Geometry
Math and Science
Math and Food
Ratio and Proportion
Data and probability
Funny
How much water do you have to drink?
In this activity student develop formulas for calculating their water needs, learn abo...
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...
Earth Day Actions for Our Planet (April 22)
We have 16 activities that you could use for Earth Day!
April 22nd is Earth Day. Help your students become activists for our planet? We have ...
A geodesic icosahedron, the Times Square New Year's eve ball
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It's a gorgeous ball, covered with Waterford Crystal triangles, shaped as a geodesic icosahedron. Every New Year's Eve it descends in Times Square to mark the...
What is a quantum dot?
Algebra
Number Sense
Geometry
Math and Science
Current events
Ratio and Proportion
Wow factor
Any time math
In this activity, students work through the nomenclature to understand the possibilities of nano science and quantum dots. Questions that are answered; How many nanometers are in a millime...
DST ends November 5th, 2023 - strange happenings
In this activity students try to figure out how time settings will change as they move from place to place and in the serious weirdness of Arizona and the Navaho and Hopi nations. What variables...