My Facebook IPO investment
What is an IPO? Are they always good investments?
Students analyze charts and data, learn a little about investing, calculate percent loss (unfortunately), and make some Facebook stock proj...
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Happy Birthday Statue of Liberty
Friday is the Statue of Liberty's 125th birthday. Student's can practice scaling with ratios, multiplication factors, or similar figures as they engage in the news of the day, learn a litt...
Occupy Wall Street protest is growing
The Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement has grown since it began on September 17th. Students can look at charts that show percent mentions of the demonstrations and calculate the p...
How many Representatives will your state get in 2011?
The 2010 U. S. Census is almost complete. One of the most important reasons for the decennial census is to determine the number of Representatives that each state should be assigned for proper rep...
Oil Spill Tragedy
As of May 28th, 2010 it is believed that the early estimate of 210,000 gallons of oil (around 5000 barrels) per day of oil leaking into the Gulf of Mexico was much too low. The flow rate was r...