Activities about Number Sense

A family in Illinois found a 6.6-inch chunk of ice in their backyard after severe storms in March 2026. Students order different hail sizes by comparing fractions with...

Locked in a smelly bathroom for one hour and then promised a lifetime of Whopper meals in 2018, an Oregon man sued Burger King when the manager withdrew...

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...

🎈Get excited for Thanksgiving with this updated Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade activity! Students explore this year's parade map to find the number of parade blocks, use the map’s...

August 10 is National S’mores Day! Engage your students with a fun real-world math activity involving s’mores! In this activity (updated), students explore how many s'mores can be...

🦇In this updated activity, students explore how vampire bats drink half their body weight in blood in just 20 minutes. Using proportional reasoning and unit conversions (volume, distance,...

Updated and improved! Is Daylight savings time helpful? How does it make you feel? "Spring forward, fall back" Early Sunday morning, March 12 th at 2 am ,...

Why should students do well in school, graduate high school, or go on to college? In this activity median earnings by various education levels are explored. Students compare...