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Mashed Potatoes Proportions
Algebra Number Sense Math and Food Holidays and Annual Events
🥔 "Why do we never have enough mashed potatoes at Thanksgiving?" In this updatedactivity, students will dive into the math of mashed potatoes planning to ensu...
6th 7th 5th ratio Ratio Table operations with fractions fraction operations proportions food Thanksgiving 6.RP.2 6.RP.A.3 6.RP.3 7.RP.1 5.NF.6 6.RP.1 5.NF.B 7.EE.B 7.RP.A.1

Leslie's Yummy Pumpkin Pie
Algebra Number Sense Math and Food Holidays and Annual Events Ratio and Proportion Any time math
Every year more and more people come to our house on Thanksgiving morning for my (Leslie's)famous pumpkin pie and a hike in the nearby woods.  This year 23 people have already accepted. How man...
Fractions 6.RP.2 6.RP.3 5.NF.6 4.NF.4 5.MD.1 6th 5th 4th 4.MD.1 5.NF.4 Recipes unit conversion Any time math

Someone ate my cake
Number Sense Math and Food
In this fraction operation and representation activity, students are asked to decide how much of my cake was eaten. Using fraction multiplication (or angle measure if that is where you need an act...
Data and Probability Fractions angle measure 4.NF.4 5th 3rd 4th fraction representation fraction operations 3.NF.1 3.G.2 4.NF.3 4.MD.5 4.MD.6 5.NF.4 proportion proportional reasoning ratio

A&W's bigger burger
Number Sense Math and Food Ratio and Proportion
 A&W offered a bigger, tastier burger but it didn't succeed in grabbing customers away from the hugely popular McDonald's quarter pounder. The A&W third pounder...
Fractions 6th 5th 3rd 4th 3.NF.A 4.NF.A burger

Monster cake
Number Sense Geometry Math and Food Ratio and Proportion
Jodie Berman, a high school math teacher in Chicago, loves mathematics and loves to cook.  We've created an activity based on her Monster Cake (composed ...
Fractions measurement percent estimation Volume 6.RP 7.RP 5.NF 7.G.6 surface area 6.G.4 6th 7th 5th 4th circle area food

Which gasoline is the cheapest?
Algebra Number Sense Ratio and Proportion
When Brian traveled to Crete last summer with his wife and son on an Archaeological dig, buying gasoline for his small rental car got him wondering again. He was pretty g...
6.RP.3 7.RP.1 7.RP.3 6th 7th 8th HS gasoline conversion conversion rates unit fractions

Drill bit fractions
Number Sense Ratio and Proportion 3-act tasks
Act One:  Drill bits are measured by the diameter of the bit in inches. The drill bits below are ordered left to right in increasing size. The numerators in the fractions have been black...
4.NF.2. 7.RP 5.NF 6th 7th 5th 3rd 4th equivalent fractions 3.NF.3 4.NF.1 3-act task

Pizza party figuring
Number Sense Geometry Math and Food
  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...
Fractions MP2 MP3 MP7 6th 5th 4th fraction representations 5.NF.3 fraction operations elementary food

Hands of Support
Math and Art Ratio and Proportion 3-act tasks Data and probability
Lorenzo Quinn, an Italian sculptor, created and temporarily installed this piece of art entitled "Support" in Venice.  Quinn used his own children's hands to design this piece.  His in...
proportion ratio MP1 6th 7th 8th HS 6.RP.A 7.RP.A 3-act task MP4 operations with fractions estimation

Population Clock
Algebra Number Sense Ratio and Proportion Data and probability
How in the world does this clock conclude that there is a net gain in the United States of one person every 14 seconds? Have a little care about younger children when using this activity. T...
rate 4.MD 6.RP 7.EE 6th 7th 8th 5th 4th 4.NF 7.NS.A adding fractions with unlike denominators 5.MD.B 5.NF.A Fractions operations with fractions elementary
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