How fast can you run?
Have you heard of The Six Million Dollar Man? He was the character in a science fiction show about an astronaut that was rebuilt, bionically, after his space ship crashed. He could run a...
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What me? Irrational?
We've found that some students believe that the approximation that their calculators show for irrational numbers is exact. Here's an activity that you can advertise as long multiplication ...
Pizza party figuring
In this activity students decide how to divide 2 pizzas amongst 6 adults and 3 pizzas amongst 8 kids. Fractional pizza parts need to be drawn and considerations discussed about which f...
Want to earn $150,000? - Mersenne prime search
What's a Mersenne prime? How hard could it be to find the next one?
Why are there only 50 known Mersenne primes? What's with $150,000?
Big Air snowboarding
Starting February 18th a new Olympic sport will be televised ... Big Air Snowboarding. Some of your students may be officianados of snowboarding. Using this activity could be an opportunity to l...
Super Bowl ads and scientific notation
The Super Bowl is over now and all of the ads have been seen. Let your students revisit and reflect on the interesting commercials with this scientific notation activity...
Is this promo a good deal?
McDonald's was offering an "Arch Card" special deal. If you bought an Arch Card for $100 you were entitled to a free BigMac or EggMcMuffin every week for a full year. The card was only offered a...
Spiraling triples
Let students explore the patterns of perfect squares and Pythagorean Triples as they analyze our piece of art and decide why the resulting construction looks like spiraling squares. For a finale the...
Is my son going to win again?
Brian son's pretty young but is he still going to whoop his dad? They were playing Monopoly Junior. Can you decide who will win? In this activity use addition and/or multiplicatio...
Holiday candy sales
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