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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?

Super Bowl ads and scientific notation

Algebra Number Sense Holidays
The Super Bowl is over now and all of the ads have been seen. Let your students revisit and reflect on the interesting commercials with this scientific notation a...

Will the new iPhone sales be huge?

Algebra Ratio and Proportion Probability and Statistics
Apple just announced their new, 10th anniversary, iPhones, the iPhone 8 and the iPhone X.  These phones will soon be in stores, the iPhone 8 comes out on September 22, 2017. The iPhone X is ava...

Growth of Facebook

Algebra Number Sense Ratio and Proportion Probability and Statistics
 In this activity, students analyze and graph the numbers and decide if Facebook's growth in the first 20 years has been linear, exponential, meteoric, or something else.  Will the number of...

Lifespan of a meme, the Harlem Shake

Algebra Number Sense Social Studies Probability and Statistics
Five friends who skateboard and video tape made up a strange dance one afternoon and filmed it on February 2nd (look it up on youtube!).  Now the whole world knows them and their da...

Fast Growing Plant

Algebra Number Sense
This activity/post is a little different than our usual posts.  We look at a particular math concept and consider how to use context, models and CCSS math practices to increase stud...
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