A little ratio art might be a fun way to get ready for the upcoming Memorial Day holiday. In this activity (Flags) students measure; create whole number ratios for the official...
How do you calculate and justify which deal is a better savings? By dollars saved? By percent saved? By some other measure? Looking at 4 different deals, students will need to...
Act One: Take a look at the first picture (Krispy-Kreme-photos). What is the first question that comes to mind? How many donuts is that? What information would be useful?
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Take a look at the infographic. What do you see? What do you think? What do you wonder? [caption id="attachment_16099" align="aligncenter" width="420"] Image from West Coast Shaving. Click...
Passover is one of the three high holidays in the Jewish calendar and celebrates the Exodus of Jews from slavery in Egypt. Let your students review fractions in this investigation on tripling my...
Check out the TVs. All have essentially the same features, only the size of the screen varies. Which TV do you think is the best deal?
Explore area and unit pricing to determine which H...
Recovery of the treasure from the 1941 sinking of the S.S. Gairsoppa was recently completed and a huge amount of silver was brought up from the ocean floor. Let your students get a fe...
Father's Day is coming up, and there is still time to have a tiny fraction review in the guise of celebrating Father's Day.This is a short activity that asks students to change the amounts in a ...
Most of the life cycle of the Magicicada Septendecim is spent underground. Then at 17 year intervals, these cicadas emerge from the ground, climb deciduous trees, molt into a...