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Ground Hog day

Holidays and Annual Events Ratio and Proportion Data and probability Funny
On GroundHog Day (February 2nd), Punxsutawney Phil will again, with great ceremony, come out of his burrow and look for his shadow.  Let your students check out the relative frequency of hi...

Shooting for Three

Algebra Geometry Sports Data and probability
The NBA court has a 3-point line that separates how many points a player will earn for his team by making a basket from outside of that line. Teams have been shooting more and more th...

Can I get your order right?

Algebra Math and Food Data and probability
  You can order a ton of combos at Chipotle.  They advertise that there are 65,000 ways to order their meals.  Do you think that is correct?  Here's an article on the permutatio...

Holiday soda displays

Algebra Number Sense Holidays and Annual Events
The holidays are coming! We found these timely soda displays made up entirely of 12-pack of Coca-Cola products. What questions do you have?  Start out the activity by giving kids 30 ...

Extreme weather 2020

Number Sense Math and Science
Because of climate change, we've been having too many extreme weather events. There have been unusual droughts and heat in the West, an increased number of hurricanes, severe flooding, and high ...

3 winners on the Price is Right - what are the chances?

Algebra Number Sense Data and probability
  Act One: Show this clip of the Price is Right program.  What questions do your students have? We were wondering what the chances are of 3 contestants in a row, eac...

Games with dice

Algebra Number Sense Data and probability
Time to let students become naturally curious about probability.  In this activity students work in teams to record the frequency of rolled dice combinations. They observe the difference be...
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