Category Archives for Holidays and Annual Events
Investigations that relate to regular annual events.
Triple Crown
I’ll Have Another May 19th will be the running of the Preakness thoroughbred horse race. The Preakness is the second race of the Triple Crown. Hopefully we’ll see the horse, I’ll Have Another, win the Preakness and get a chance to … Continue reading
Diapers – thank your parents
Time to celebrate Mother’s Day? Father’s Day? Time to help students realize all that mom and dad went through in buying and changing diapers. Students will compare the cost of buying disposable versus cloth diapers. They estimate how much they … Continue reading
Mother’s Day 2012
Mother’s Day is right around the corner and this means big business for the greeting card and floral industries. Let your students practice averages, percents, and large numbers while they analyze the statistics on Mother’s Day spending. You could even … Continue reading
Season 11 American Idol
Let your student study American Idol viewing figures over the last ten seasons. Students compare historical season premier and season finale audience size in several different ways to determine which event has had higher viewership. They consider outliers and judge … Continue reading
Patriots’ Day 2012
April 19th is the anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord that began the Revolutionary War 237 years ago in 1775. Both Paul Revere and the British regulars started moving towards Concord between 10pm and 11pm on the 18th. … Continue reading
Holiday candy sales 2012
Another Candy holiday is upon us. Brian asks students to translate a pie chart of information on candy sale expenditures to actual dollars spent for 4 major candy holidays … Halloween, Easter, Christmas and Hanuka, and Valentine’s Day. Serve a … Continue reading
Passover Macaroons 2012
Passover begins this year on Friday evening, April 6th, with a Passover seder dinner. Passover is one of the three high holidays in the Jewish religion and celebrates the Exodus of Jews from slavery in Egypt. Let your students review … Continue reading
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 out how much dye is used to sufficiently color the … Continue reading
Pi Day – 3.14@1:59:26 pm
March 14th is almost here. Celebrate π in your school and in your math classes with activities that: Demonstrate how π was derived, Show a surprising place where π is used, Increase students ability to measure and long divide, Applauds … Continue reading
Shamrock Shake
For Saint Patrick’s Day add a little nutrition math to your celebration. In this post we look at calories, carbohydrates, sugars, fats, and proteins to decide what would be left for our day’s meal allotment after we had lunch and … Continue reading
Presidents Day
Monday, February 20th, is Presidents Day. We honor presidents, veterans, purple heart recipients and sell cars. Is there more to Presidents Day? Students can learn a little of the history of the day while they check out how much various … Continue reading
Four Valentine activities
For Tuesday, Valentine’s Day, we have four different activities that you can use in your classroom. Sweetheart Candies - Explore unit measure with sweet little hearts. Valentine Cardioid - Do some art in your math class. Chocolates - Discover the surface area of … Continue reading
Chocolates
Valentine’s Day is here again and that means candies and chocolate. In this activity students approximate the volume (through finding surface area) of three different pieces of chocolate. The chocolates are shaped like a heart, a bat (for Halloween) and … Continue reading
Valentine’s Cardioid
WojciechSwiderski at the Polish language Wikipedia Happy Valentine’s Day! cardioid.pdf This PDF contains four ways students can draw cardioids for Valentine’s Day.
Sweetheart Candies
Here is your Valentine’s Day (Tuesday, February 14th) lesson. What more could kids want then Sweetheart candies, problem solving, critical thinking, and number sense reasoning. Enjoy! sweetheart-candy2012.pdf For members we have solutions and Word documents. sweetheart-candy2012.doc sweetheart-candy2012-solutions.doc sweetheart-candy2012-solutions.pdf CCSS: … Continue reading
