On the morning of November 8, 2022, many of us will be able to see the last full lunar eclipse until March 2025.
Luckily, many of us will be able to see the eclipse pretty close to when we woul...
In this activity students assume that all of our pieces of chocolate are about the same thickness and proceed to approximate their volumes by comparing only their surface areas.
Consider sh...
Gumball Machine Problem from Brian Marks on Vimeo
This problem is a little puzzle to get your students thinking, estimating, and calculating. We've given you a pdf file w...
I have to go to the bathroom pretty badly. I have to admit that I have been holding it in for a while. Finally! I see a bathroom sign! Wait ... it is in kilometers? How...
Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)
50 years ago we landed on the moon. We've established a space station and flown astronauts and guests to live there. Private industries have created reusable ...
Probably most of us have heard of and even used hexadecimal color codes. Don't you wonder why their number descriptions really make sense?
In this activity we first ask students to color in o...
After chlorination, it has been hard to measure the quantity of pollutants in pool water. A Canadian chemist, Xing-Fang Li, has found a marker for urine that chlorine doesn't disguise....
Act 1 - Give students time to view the game board above or give them our one-page activity. The above picture is larger when you click on it. Ask students for their gut reaction about which sl...
At Costco you can buy this huge tub of nutella. It contains nearly 7 pounds of chocolaty-hazelnut spread.
We use nutella to make banana/nutella crepes. How long will that tub last u...