How many pieces does each person get when $10 is supposed to feed two people?
Which would you buy and how much is each piece of your choice? How many nuggets do you guess are in tha...
Recipe courtesy of The Slow Roasted Italian
A little more delicious work for the Super Bowl. Students follow a recipe that involves "cutting the cheese" block, figuring how many se...
We've gotten used to believing what we read or see advertised. But sometimes the clerk doesn't get the sales discount right or something seems a little off. Let students ponder this store me...
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...
Wildfires are burning in the Sierra Nevada Mountains near Yosemite National Park. In this activity we ask students to examine various maps of this California region, calculate distances us...
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 ...
Brian loves Twinkies and the news that Hostess is going out of business has upset him terribly. He needs his Twinkies. Twinkies last forever. Right? He's going ...
Keep your students up on what's happening in space while analyzing Curiosity the Mars Rover's speed, the speed of a radio transmission from Mars, and the deceleration involved in a "sky crane" lan...
How long will it take me to download the video game? This can be done as a 3 Act Task. To get started simply show the video and following picture to your class.ACT ONE: I decided to download a c...