Category Archives for Math and Art
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
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
Valentine’s Data
Look down at the bottom of this post to link to our other Valentine’s Day activities. This is part of the graphic from http://visual.ly/valentines-day-facts What fraction of these roses are shaded red. The red ones symbolize flowers that come from Columbia … Continue reading
Perfect 10
The high score of a gymnastic routine used to be 10 but the rules have changed. Watch the video below to see Nadia Comanici perform the first ever perfect Olympic routine in the 1976 Olympics. But the scoring has changed dramatically. … Continue reading
Legos
Act One: The world record for the tallest structure made of Legos was recently set in Seoul, South Korea. Check out the pictures and video below: How much do you estimate that it costs for only the materials, to build this tower? … 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
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
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.
Crop circles
In the travel section of our newspaper this week, Wiltshire, England was a recommended destination to see Stonehendge and crop circles ………….. crop circles? Many of the crop circles in England appear mysteriously overnight. They are often huge but appear … Continue reading
What’s a cardioid?
Attribution: WojciechSwiderski at the Polish language Wikipedia Happy Valentine’s Day everyone! Just for fun, these are instructions for four different ways to draw cardioids for Valentine’s Day. cardioid.pdf
Benoît Mandelbrot
In October, 2010, Benoît Mandelbrot died in Cambridge, Massachusetts. To honor his life and work in fractals and natural recurrence, we’ve created an investigation that teaches students a little about Mandelbrot’s life, a little about the … Continue reading
