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Joe's Tiny New York

Number Sense Art
Joe Macken is a truck driver from upstate New York. Back in 2004, when he was 41, he went into his basement with some balsa wood and started carving a tiny version of New York City, one building at a ...

Mother’s Day by the numbers

Number Sense Holidays
Mother’s Day is right around the corner, and that means big business for the greeting card, flower, and restaurant industries. In this activity, students calculate the average Mother's Day spendi...

Cost of light bulbs (Updated)

Social Studies Ratio and Proportion
With incandescent and halogen bulbs banned since 2023, students compare CFL, LED, and Smart LED bulbs, calculate energy use in kilowatt-hours, and determine which bulb is the better deal over time.&nb...

The Last Great Race on Earth

Algebra Number Sense Sports Ratio and Proportion
The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race is an annual event in which mushers and teams of 12-16 dogs race across Alaska from Anchorage to Nome, in the cold and dark of March. It is also known as “The Las...

Super Bowl Numerals

Number Sense Sports Holidays
Super Bowl numbers are appearing again! As students start getting into the current Super Bowl hype, help them to understand the notation that the sports writers and advertisements are using. Intr...

2026

Holidays Any time math
 As the new year approaches (where did the time go!!?), our annual activity has students explore not-so-common number categories to investigate whether 2026 fits into any of these. What is a Hars...

Black Friday

Holidays Ratio and Proportion
 Black Friday is the biggest shopping day of the year! In this activity, students get a sneak peek at early Black Friday deals to calculate savings (decimals & percent discounts) and dec...

S'mores

Number Sense Food Holidays
August 10 is National S’mores Day! Engage your students with a fun real-world math activity involving s’mores! In this activity (updated), ...

What a range

Science Probability and Statistics
📗Temperature Math with Negative Numbers! 🌡️ Around the world, temperatures can be wildly different depending on the location and time of year. In...

Magic Squares

Algebra
Though it is not our usual real-world application, we always have time for some fun math puzzles! In this updated activity, students will explore the puzzle of magic squares. You...
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