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A geodesic icosahedron, the Times Square New Year's eve ball

Geometry Math and Science Holidays and Annual Events Math and Art Current events

Image by kjpargeter on Freepik It's a gorgeous ball, covered with Waterford Crystal triangles, shaped as a geodesic icosahedron. Every New Year's Eve it descends in Times Square to mark the...

Indigenous Peoples or Columbus Day

Algebra Geometry Math and Social Studies Holidays and Annual Events

When Columbus landed in Guanahani (renamed San Salvador, Bahama Islands by Columbus), he began the European settlement of the New World. Guanahani was inhabited by the Taíno people and...

Chocolate heart-shaped raspberry cake

Geometry Math and Food Holidays and Annual Events Math and Art

For Valentine's Day, bake a cake! Students calculate base area or volume of cakes made from 2 cake pan sizes and observe how the volume of the cake changes with the increased pan size. &nbs...

Lots of Cranberries

Geometry Math and Food Holidays and Annual Events Ratio and Proportion

The harvest must be nearing completion now and growers are selling their product to make cranberry juice, jelly, sauce, and of course, fresh berries in time for Thanksgiving. In this activit...

Wrapping presents on the diagonal

Algebra Number Sense Geometry Holidays and Annual Events

Dr. Sara Santos is a popular mathematician and speaker on mathematics. She has worked out a method for wrapping boxes (rectangular prisms) as efficiently as possible. (W...

2 New Macy's Parade balloons

Algebra Number Sense Geometry Holidays and Annual Events Current events Ratio and Proportion

As the Macy's Parade returns to public viewing, here are two balloons that Macy's artists have added. Can you figure out their dimensions? Macy's give their dimensions in bicycle lengths, taxi w...

Collecting the most candy

Number Sense Geometry Math and Food Holidays and Annual Events

Use your student’s Halloween enthusiasm to do a study on volumes. We’ve created an activity that asks students to calculate the volume of candy containers that are silly and intriguing. ...

How long will it take you to trick-or-treat?

Number Sense Geometry Holidays and Annual Events

It's Halloween and this is your neighborhood. How long will it take you to trick or treat at every house in your neighborhood? Possible conversation with students: How long will it take yo...

Spiraling squares - compass and straight edge

Algebra Number Sense Geometry Holidays and Annual Events Math and Art

Can you see the many spirals in this design? Students calculate the size of each increasing round of squares and consider what sort of spirals these must be. Working wit...

Big Air snowboarding

Number Sense Geometry Math and Science Sports Holidays and Annual Events

Starting February 18th a new Olympic sport will be televised ... Big Air Snowboarding. Some of your students may be officianados of snowboarding. Using this activity could be an opportunity to l...

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