Category Archives for Math and Food
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
Passover Macaroons
Passover begins this year on Monday evening, March 25th, 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
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
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
3.14@1:59:26 = Happy Pi day
March 14th is almost here. Celebrate π in your school and in your math class 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 the … Continue reading
Cruising
There have been a lot of cruise ship mishaps and disasters this year. While these are in the news, let your students consider how these floating cities manage their resources and which of their needs are precarious as they calculate … 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
Sweetheart Candy
Here is another Valentine’s Day (Thursday, February 14th) lesson. What more could kids want than 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
Big Burger 2013
Time to treat the kids to ratios, proportions, fractions and big burgers! In this activity students explore ratio of the different ingredients in the world’s largest burger. They then apply this ratio of ingredients to other giant burgers. This is … Continue reading
Whole lot of cookies
Jennifer Fairbanks from Hopkinton, MA sent us this picture of the cookies that she baked in 4 hours using 13 eggs and 5 cups of sugar. Do you see some math here? Lot_of_Cookies.pdf For members we have an editable Word … Continue reading
Twinkies
Brian loves Twinkies and the news that Hostess is going out of business has upset him terribly. He needs his Twinkies. Twinkies last forever. Right? He’s going to buy enough for 15 years of Twinkies. In this activity, students examine … Continue reading
Enough mashed potatoes for Thanksgiving?
Using his famous mashed potato recipe, Brian has asked students to change decimals to fractions, to calculate ingredient measures for various-sized Thanksgiving gatherings, to explain their thinking in calculating these figures, and to judge how many servings could be created … Continue reading
Is this possible?
Brian Shoemaker, a Newton, MA mathematics teacher, saw this Dunkin Donuts Mazda traveling down the road. He wondered if that size coffee cup could really have coffee in it. Wouldn’t the car rock back on its rear bumper? How much … Continue reading
Timely links
Hurricanes We wrote this activity last year for Hurricane Irene. The Saffir/Simpson Hurrican Wind scale is explained and data about past hurricanes is explored. Students are led to an analysis of whether hurricanes are becoming more frequent or more intense. New … Continue reading
