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More eruptions on Hawai'i's Kilauea

Algebra Geometry Math and 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...

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 ...

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 ...

Big Air snowboarding

Number Sense Geometry Math and Science Sports Holidays and Annual Events
Starting February 18th a new Olympic sport will be televised ... Big Air Snowboarding.  Some of your students may be officianados of snowboarding. Using this activity could be an opportunity to l...

Greasing light poles

Algebra Geometry Math and Social Studies Sports Current events
The Philadelphia police were being proactive about keeping their enthusiastic Eagles fans from being reckless as they celebrated their 2018 Super Bowl win.  So, the police departments...

Spiraling triples

Number Sense Geometry Math and Art
Let students explore the patterns of perfect squares and Pythagorean Triples as they analyze our piece of art and decide why the resulting construction looks like spiraling squares. For a finale the...

Rescue of the Chilean miners - The 33

Geometry Math and 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...

How much have doughnuts changed?

Algebra Number Sense Geometry Math and 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...

HDTV Surprise!

Number Sense Geometry
  How were your holidays?  Your school vacation?  Mine was good. I surprised my family with this HDTV, which I wrapped and hung on our wall.  The size of an HDTV is determined by ...

Crop circles

Algebra Geometry Math and Art
  In the travel section of our newspaper this week, Wiltshire, England was a recommended destination to see Stonehendge and crop circles  ...........  crop circles? Many of the ...
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