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Fibonacci coloring

Algebra Number Sense Geometry Art

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 th...

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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

What are the odds that Justify can win the Triple Crown?

Number Sense Sports Holidays Current events Probability and Statistics

Justify has won the Triple Crown. He's the 13th horse to ever win all three races ... Kentucky Derby, Preakness, and the Belmont Stakes. Amazing! Justify w...

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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 ...

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More eruptions on Hawai'i's Kilauea

Algebra Geometry 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...

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Boeing 787 draws an airplane over the United States

Number Sense Geometry Ratio and Proportion

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 decided to have ...

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How fast can you run?

Algebra Number Sense Science Ratio and Proportion Probability and Statistics

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...

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Jackie Robinson

Algebra Social Studies Sports Probability and Statistics

April 15th, 1947 was a date to remember. Jackie Robinson became the first African-American baseball player to play in Major League Baseball since the game was segregated in the 1890s. Robinson...

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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 ...

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Pizza party figuring

Number Sense Geometry 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...

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