Category Archives for Data and Probability
Is college affordable?
Widener Library, Harvard University It’s that time of year again. Students are applying and hopefully getting accepted to college. Students are also graduating and moving on from 12th, 8th or 5th grade to new schools in the fall. Whether you … Continue reading
Triple Crown
Joel Rosario riding Orb May 18th 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, Orb, win the Preakness and get a chance to run for … Continue reading
How much do we spend for Mother’s Day?
Use the Mother’s Day event to engage your students in approximating, reasoning, and investigating. Brian has asked students to estimate how much is spent in the United States for Mother’s Day. There’s a lot to consider and that’s exactly what … Continue reading
Who had the greatest NBA season ever?
Some of the greats, Larry Bird, Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson Who had the greatest NBA season of all time? Which player contributed the greatest amount of offensive production to their team? Who was the most valuable? Brian gives weight to … Continue reading
Iphone 5
This is only part of the infographic published and copywrited by AVALAUNCH MEDIA. We’ve left off the solution of this graphic so that your class can come to their own range of iPhone5 costs. To see the full graphic go here. When … Continue reading
True cost of lights bulbs
Last year the House of Representatives voted to withhold funding to enforce a law that was passed in 2007 and increases efficiency standards for light bulbs. There’s a lot of misinformation out there about the cost to consumers of CFL … Continue reading
Opening weekend
Hunger Games and the Avengers are recent popular movies that have made a ton of money during their opening weekend at the box office . Can you tell from its opening weekend how the movie will do in the long … Continue reading
Season 12, American Idol
Let your student study American Idol viewing figures over the last eleven 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
The Greatest March Madness Program
Based on this data, which do you think is the greatest March Madness program ever? Once students decide their “best program ever” challenge them use a different criteria than they originally used. That is, ask them to think of another … Continue reading
Peeps
How many Peeps are sold at Easter time each year? Check out our Peeps math activity here. Treat your students to some authentic and delicious math as they estimate, consider reasonability, determine necessary info, problem solve and conduct random samplings. The activity, … Continue reading
The Perfect Bracket?
What are your chances of picking the perfect March Madness College Basketball Tournament bracket? How does the change from 64 to 65 to now, 68 teams in the field complicate things? How many brackets would you need to fill out … Continue reading
Lifespan of a meme, the Harlem Shake
Five friends who skateboard and video tape made up a strange dance one afternoon and filmed it on February 2nd. Now the whole world knows them and their dance … weird. This is the story of the life of a … 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 and more pi activities
Thursday is pi day (3.14) and we have tons of math activities and tasks to engage your students. Check out our pi day post which includes several pi explorations. You might also consider some of these timeless yummymath tasks that let students … Continue reading
