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After launch, the telescope deployed on its 30-day, million-mile journey out to the second Lagrange point (L2). This video shows the deployment procedure, timeline, and location of...
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...
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...
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...
The Day of the Dead is always on the first and second of November. Life and death are part of the natural cycle of life and the Dia...
People who have invested their money in the stock markets could have made a lot of money in recent years. Students use yearly percent increase data to decide...
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?
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...
This picture may have been Photoshopped and not be a true representation. We blacked out the Fahrenheit reading of this temperature sign at the Death Valley Visitor Center....
A newly released nutritional and environmentally sustainable study shows that eating just one hot dog can take 36 minutes off your total healthy lifespan. How many would you...
These Aussi tomatoes (the tomato on the left of all of the tomatoes) are huge. How much do you guess one weighs? Can you figure it out?
In this activity student first try to redistrict our pretend state in order to preserve the overall state's balance in its new districting plan. Then, students redistrict our...