Bowl by the hour or the game?
What should you consider when choosing how to pay? Which do you expect will be the best deal? How do you know?
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Home team advantage?
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Even before your students check out the graphic below, ask them whether they think a game played at home gives their team an advantage. If so, how much of an advantage? Enjoy t...
What's interesting about this number?
Why did we put it on YummyMath today?
What do you notice about this number? What do you wonder? Do you think that this happens often in a year?
Will one roll be enough?
Students can use the man or the basket as a reference as they try to approximate the size of these gifts and how much wrapping paper will actually be needed. Approximation, surface are...
Wrapping presents on the diagonal
Dr. Sara Santos is a popular mathematician and speaker on mathematics. She has worked out a method for wrapping boxes (rectangular prisms) as efficiently as possible. (W...
2 New Macy's Parade balloons
As the Macy's Parade returns to public viewing, here are two balloons that Macy's artists have added. Can you figure out their dimensions? Macy's give their dimensions in bicycle lengths, taxi w...
Shopping season already!
Number Sense
Math and Social Studies
Holidays and Annual Events
Ratio and Proportion
Data and probability
We used to see holiday sales right after Thanksgiving but, surprisingly, holiday shopping has already begun. Sales are advertised everywhere. Students will be able to add some understanding an...
Collecting the most candy
Use your student’s Halloween enthusiasm to do a study on volumes. We’ve created an activity that asks students to calculate the volume of candy containers that are silly and intriguing. ...
Which sale would you rather use?
In this short activity, students decide if these two sales are the same. If not, which is better? How would you explain this to someone?
Federal debt and deficit - What are they?
What's the big deal with our national debt? Do we actually borrow money to cover our debt? If we do, imagine the interest charges?
Help your students (and their families) understa...