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Impress your parents at dinner
Algebra Number Sense
This activity is the first in our series on mental math tricks.  Let your students develop their own individual way of mentally multiplying by 0.5, 5, 50, 500, and so on.  We have a litt...
5.NBT MP7 MP8 mental math 6th 7th 8th HS 5th MP6 4.NBT.B

Will Damarious Randall have to pay big?
Number Sense Sports Current events 3-act tasks
Warriors won the NBA Championships.  Randall won't have to buy jerseys!  The Cleveland Brown's safety player, Damarious Randall, posted this tweet.  Its been ...
estimation 6.RP.3 MP1 5.NBT.5 6th 5th basketball

More eruptions on Hawai'i's Kilauea
Algebra Geometry Math and Science Current events Ratio and Proportion
The Volcano Kilauea is continuing to spew molten lava and ash on the island of Hawai'i. This volcano is on the tip of the southern most Hawaiian Island. Is that significant? In this activit...
6th 7th 8th 5th 4th geography 4.MD.A 6.EE.C 8.G.A 8.F.A geology tectonic motion rate calculations translation HSG.CO.A ratio unit rates

How fast can you run?
Algebra Number Sense Math and Science Ratio and Proportion Data and probability
Have you heard of The Six Million Dollar Man?  He was the character in a science fiction show about an astronaut that was rebuilt, bionically, after his space ship crashed.  He could run a...
6th 7th 8th 5th 5.MD.A HSA 6.RP.A conversions dimensional analysis unit factors time rate distance

What me? Irrational?
Number Sense
We've found that some students believe that the approximation that their calculators show for irrational numbers is exact.  Here's an activity that you can advertise as long multiplication ...
5.NBT.7 5.NBT 7.NS.3 6.NS.3 8.NS.1 8.EE 8.G 6th 7th 8th 5th irrational numbers square roots multiplication

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

Want to earn $150,000? - Mersenne prime search
Algebra Number Sense
What's a Mersenne prime?  How hard could it be to find the next one? Why are there only 50 known Mersenne primes?     What's with $150,000?
6.EE MP1 MP7 MP8 prime numbers 8.EE 5.OA 6th 7th 8th HS 5th 4.OA MP5 exponent create equations

Curling
Geometry Math and Science Sports
Friction, score-keeping, trajectory and weirdness are the main concepts in this activity.  Curling is not a well-understood sport but the science and strategy are easily understoo...
MP3 6th 7th 8th HS 5th modeling scoring friction trajectory spin curling rotation sports

How many wings did the Bills send the Bengals?
Algebra Math and Food Sports Ratio and Proportion
  Cincinnati Bengals serving their thank-you gift from the Buffalo Bills to the Autism High School at the Children's Home of Cincinnati On December 31st, 2017, the Cincinnati Benga...
estimation 6.RP.3 MP1 5.NBT.5 6th 7th 5th elementary food

The Olympic Torch trip in South Korea
Math and Social Studies Sports Current events Ratio and Proportion Data and probability
On October 24, 2017, the Olympic flame was captured on Mount Olympus, Greece. That flame lit one of this year's Olympic Torches and the Torch relay was begun on its way to the opening Winter Olympic...
Unit rate 7.SP 6th 7th 8th HS 5th Olympics 6.SP.B 6.RP.A HSN.Q.A South Korea metric English conversion conversion
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