5 pound pumpkin compared to giant pumpkin
Let your students marvel at World Record winning giant pumpkins as they use proportions to calculate the quantities of pumpkin puree and th...
In this activity students compare team wins with team salaries in the four major North American sports ... the NBA, NFL, MLB and NHL.
Students use data from recent seasons to create scatter ...
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This week Hurricane Fiona caused major damage to Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and the Caribbean,
This is the season for increased cyc...
Did you know that there is an amount of caffeine that is too much for the growing brain of a teenager? We did some research and have asked students to examine the sources of caffei...
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...
Wow! Check out this deal at Macy's. For $25 I can join Macy's Star Rewards program. I get 10% back in rewards for every dollar I spend. Its pretty cool that Macy's gives p...
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...