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What's with the March Equinox? Does it really affect our lives? Is it just some astronomical occurrence? Students calculate the daylight hours at the March Equinox by time...
Shamrocks in Ireland are actually 3-leafed white clover, trifolium repens . If you are lucky , you can sometimes find a four-leafed clover. How rare is finding a...
For Valentine's Day, bake a cake! Students calculate base area or volume of cakes made from 2 cake pan sizes and observe how the volume of the cake...
NECCO went bankrupt in 2018 and Sweetheart candies weren't the same after that. They are back now and made better (?) in Ohio instead of Boston. How many...
This activity is scheduled to be updated.. stay tuned! (Before Super Bowl LXI, February 14, 2027) In this activity students study historical Super Bowl data to reflect on...
Updated! See the new post here "Mega Millions" Adventurer members can access the older version by clicking the "Solutions & supporting material"
On January 4th, 2023, Earth will be as close as it gets to the Sun during its orbit. Shouldn't that make this the warmest time of the year?...
Check out our Christmas Tree! We need to buy lights for the tree. Without calculating, guess how many feet of lights we will need. What information would help...
In this problem based activity students first guess and then try to calculate whether they will have enough paper to wrap this present without taping pieces of wrapping...
This activity has been updated -- See the updated activity HERE
The harvest must be nearing completion now and growers are selling their product to make cranberry juice, jelly, sauce, and of course, fresh berries in time for...
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...