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Last year, Dunkin Donuts offered a great deal for getting two breakfast sandwiches at a pretty low cost.
Check out their poster for the sandwich costs and pictures.
Can you figure out the cost of each sandwich's components?
The activity: Dunkin'sGo2s.pdf
CCSS: 6.EE, 7.EE, 8.EE, HSA
How much snow is that? - How many inches of snow produced that pile? How much snow in volume is on top of the car? How much could that snow weigh? Approximation, snow/water equivalent rates (SWE) 5.MD.C, 6.RP.A, 7.RP.A, 7.EE.B, 7.G, 7.EE.A
Snowy days - Students make predictions of total snow fallen in a 23 hour period. average snow fall rates, graphing, slope analysis for a real event. 8.F.5 , 8.SP, HSF.IF.B.6 , HSF.LE.A.2 , HSS.ID.B.6
It sure is cold out ... or is it? - Correlation between place latitudes and average January temperatures is investigated. averaging, missing data for averaging, line of best fit, extrapolation 6.SP.5, 8.SP.1, 8.SP.2, 8.SP.3, HSS.ID.B.6, HSS.ID.C.7, HSA.CED.A.2, HSF.LE.A.1
John Urschel is a young man with several seemingly disparate characteristics and talents. He is an athlete and a mathematician and he is a black man and a mathematician. He loves what he does and he is good at it all.
In this activity, students can learn about this mathematician and retired pro football player as they read to create a timeline of his life and accomplishments. They compare his milestone to the milestones that are usually met in schools.
The activity: JohnUrschel.pdf
What's your guess? How fast are the number of daylight hours changing each day? Are the changes dramatic or subtle?
Students make guesses; compute how long, on average, the change in daylight hours should be; and finally understand the variability in our year of daylight hours.
There's a new way to earn rewards at many grocery stores. For every dollar that you spend, you accumulate points. Then there are special rewards where you earn an extra 500 points for buying a certain product. Rewards can mount up fast.
Finally you have to decide how to spend your rewards. You can cash them in for savings on groceries, apply them to your gasoline purchases, or even use them to give to a food kitchen.
Many people will choose to give the value of their rewards to charity. But, if you are going to use them for gasoline or groceries, which way gets you the best deal?
The activity: SpendingMyGoPoints.pdf
Sweetheart candies are back - NECCO went bankrupt in 2018 and there weren't Sweetheart candies the next year. But they are back now and made in Ohio instead of Massachusetts. How many dollars worth of sweetheart candies used to be sold each Valentine's season? Students practice problem solving, critical thinking, and number sense reasoning? 6.RP, 7.RP, N-Q
Where have all the flowers gone come from? - Sunday, February 14, 2021, is Valentine's Day. Start the "love hoopla" with this graphic (from visual.ly) about where all of those flowers come from. What fraction of these roses are shaded red? The red ones symbolize flowers that come from Columbia or Ecuador. What fact is this graphic of roses demonstrating? What other ways could they have shown that fact? 4.OA, 4.NF, 5.NF, 6.RP.3, 7.RP