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Bowl by the hour or the game?
Bowl by the hour or the game?

What should you consider when choosing how to pay? Which do you expect will be the best deal? How do you know? For Adventurer members we have an...

Algebra Number Sense Grades 5–HS
I should have invested!
I should have invested!

People who have invested their money in the stock markets could have made a lot of money in recent years. Students use yearly percent increase data to decide...

Algebra Number Sense Grades 7–HS
Chuck E. Cheese needed to shred
Chuck E. Cheese needed to shred

Restaurants have been having a hard time and Chuck E. Cheese, with their arcade games and hands on everything, needed to declare bankruptcy during the pandemic. 7 BILLION...

Number Sense Math and Social Studies Grades 5–HS
Death Valley, CA - How hot was it?
Death Valley, CA - How hot was it?

This picture may have been Photoshopped and not be a true representation. We blacked out the Fahrenheit reading of this temperature sign at the Death Valley Visitor Center....

Algebra Number Sense Grades 6–HS
Just ONE hot dog
Just ONE hot dog

A newly released nutritional and environmentally sustainable study shows that eating just one hot dog can take 36 minutes off your total healthy lifespan. How many would you...

Algebra Number Sense Grades 4–HS
Fibonacci coloring
Fibonacci coloring

Let your students simply enjoy coloring our designs or artistically play with the whole creation of Φ designs. Simply coloring our Fibonacci patterns might allow students to ponder...

Algebra Number Sense Grades 4–HS
Boeing 787 draws an airplane over the United States
Boeing 787 draws an airplane over the United States

Recently, pilots of a Boeing 787 testing a new set of Rolls Royce engines, fulfilled their FAA required long-distance endurance requirement in an unusual way. The Boeing pilots...

Number Sense Geometry Grades 6–HS
The Olympic Torch trip in South Korea
The Olympic Torch trip in South Korea

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...

Math and Social Studies Sports Grades 5–HS
Alarming ice cracks on Brunt Ice Sheet in Antarctica
Alarming ice cracks on Brunt Ice Sheet in Antarctica

A new, fast-growing ice crack is forcing the Halley VI British research station in Antarctica (shown above) to be moved. Fear of a huge break-off from the ice...

Algebra Number Sense Grades 6–HS
Shrinking Toblerone
Shrinking Toblerone

New York Times photo - Credit Darren Staples/Reuters They changed it. That is so not fair ... or is it? You can check out a video news story...

Number Sense Geometry Grades 5–HS
Leicester City Foxes - from underdogs to Champions
Leicester City Foxes - from underdogs to Champions

Recently, to the surprise and elation of England and the world, the Leicester City Foxes became the winners of the British football association's Premier League. What was the...

Algebra Number Sense Grades 6–HS
Figuring planting dates
Figuring planting dates

It's time to get ready to plant my garden again. But here in Boston we have to start our seeds indoors to give them a head start before...

Algebra Number Sense Grades 8–HS