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Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan to give away 99% of their shares of Facebook
Algebra Number Sense Social Studies Ratio and Proportion
  That sounds like an awful lot of their Facebook shares.  They want to help create a better world for their daughter, Max. I wonder if they will have enough left over to live on? The...
Data and Probability percents 6.RP.3 percent increase 7.RP.3 7.EE.3 6th 7th 8th HS HSF.LE.A.1 HSF-IF.C.8b

Rescue of the Chilean miners - The 33
Geometry Science
On August 5, 2010, the San Jose copper-gold mine near Copiapó, Chile collapsed stranding 33 miners in a large cavern more than 2,000 feet below ground. A new movie has just been released about the inc...
Volume cylinder 8.G.9 surface area 7th 8th HS HSG-MG.A.1 HSG.MG.A.2 geometry

What's your favorite sport?
Algebra Number Sense Sports Probability and Statistics
What is your favorite sport?  Wait, do I mean your favorite sport to play or your favorite sport to watch? Does it matter? Are your favorite to-watch sport and your favorite to-play sport the sam...
Scatter Plot graph 5.G.1 5.G.2 association HSS-ID.B.6 8.SP.1 6th 7th 8th HS 5th correlation bivariate data

How much have doughnuts changed?
Algebra Number Sense Geometry Food
Part of the Smithsonian's Sally L. Steinberg Collection of Doughnut Ephemera -- Click on the image to see it larger. When you are working on volume in your class, you can use this activi...
Volume 8th HS HSG-MG.A.1 HSA.SSE.B.3 HSA.SSE.A.1 HSA.SSE.A.2 Torus donuts 8.G.C.9 HSA.APR.D.6 HSG.GMD.B.4

How Much is a Tweet Worth?
Algebra Number Sense Social Studies Sports Ratio and Proportion Probability and Statistics
These days it seems everyone is on social media. Are you? Famous athletes and entertainers are on social media and they can make a lot of money.  In this activity students study how ...
line of best fit Unit rate 6.RP.3 7.RP.2 8.SP.2 8.SP.3 HSS-ID.B.6 8.EE.5 8.F.4 HSF-LE.A.2 MP.4 6th 7th 8th HS HSS.ID.C.7 HSS-ID.C.8 graphing linear relationships

Free Flights?
Algebra Number Sense
This can't be right!  If my flight cost $200 and I stayed for 10 days it would be free.  Right?  You can kick off this activity by asking students to think about where ...
data analysis 7.EE.4 HSA-CED.A.2 MP3 MP8 MP.4 7th 8th HS HSA.CED.A.1 relationships equations costs patterns

What's with the plovers?
Algebra Number Sense Science Ratio and Proportion Probability and Statistics
Cute little birds.  Piping plovers are nesting on beaches along the Atlantic coast. Consequently beaches are often roped-off or closed to protect their nests and chicks. Is this conservatio...
Scatter Plot line of best fit data analysis average 7th 8th HS 7.RP.A 8.SP.A HSS.ID.B 7.EE.B 8.EE.C HSA.CED.A

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...
Scatter Plot percent Business Data exponential growth news growth factor 7.RP.3 HSS-ID.B.6 8.SP.1 8.F.4 7th 8th HS F-LE linear growth F-IF.6

Clean Close Shave
Algebra
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...
6.SP.3 7.SP.4 6.SP.4 7.SP.2 7.SP.1 7. SP.3 6th 7th 8th HS 5th 4th HSS.ID.A.2 HSS-ID.C.9 6.SP.1

Deflategate
Algebra Number Sense Sports
  The deflated ball controversy makes an interesting segue into negative number line understanding.  A particular digital psi football gauge reads 0 when the ball is at a proper NFL in...
Data and Probability 7.NS.1 HSA-CED.A.3 6th 7th HS 6.NS.5 6.NS.6 6.NS.7 HSA.CED.A.1 6.EE.5 football inequality absolute value

Kilauea's lava flow
Number Sense Geometry Science
[caption id="attachment_15749" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Halema‘uma‘u Lights the Morning Sky - Photo taken from the overlook by the Volcano House on January 30, 2014 - NPS photo[/caption] The v...
Data and Probability slope rate 6.RP.3 7.G.1 HSF-IF.B.6 8.F 5.MD.1 6th 7th 8th 5th 8.F.B.4 Kilauea Pāhoa lava flow contour volcano

Saffron and paella
Algebra Number Sense Science Food
In order to cook Paella (a delicious Spanish rice dish) I needed to buy Saffron spice.  It was hugely expensive.  So, I've decided to start a business of growing saffron and becoming immen...
patterns rates 7.RP 8.SP 5.OA Excel 6th 7th 8th HS 5th profit HSS HSN food
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