Which Sweet Hearts are the Best Deal?
I have been doing a little shopping for Sweet Heart Candies. I came across these three deals online. Which should I select?
In this activity students determine w...
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Deflategate
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...
How much does a Lego cost?
This is a three act task, with an activity guide. Show students the act one video. What questions do they have? How much could the Star Wars kit cost? Follow the activi...
Kilauea's lava flow
[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]
Th...
An ounce of cola
Which is more expensive; gasoline? milk? or cola? Students calculate the per ounce cost of each of these liquids in a story about a man doing errands. After finding the per ounce price, ...
Green, green river
During the St. Patrick's Day parade in Chicago, the local plumbers union dyes the Chicago River emerald green.
Students learn what PPM (parts per million) means and attempt to figure ...
Scoring Olympic ski jumping
The scoring rubric for each of the Olympic events is intended to eliminate the possibility of scoring bias from the judges. Let your students learn more about the scoring of one event and deci...
California wildfire
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...
Bits, bytes, and nibbles
Clicking on the image will show it larger.
I'm not very good at understanding how large my device capacities are and how big the files that I want to download are in comparison. I decid...
Raising the bar
Recovery of the treasure from the 1941 sinking of the S.S. Gairsoppa was recently completed and a huge amount of silver was brought up from the ocean floor. Let your students get a fe...