The Iditarod Dog Sled Race will begin this year on Saturday, March 7th in Anchorage, Alaska. It is often called The Last Great Race on Earth because it is so long and grueling. Students do some rate, distance, and hardship comparisons to decide…
Category: Algebra
These posts help students see patterns and relationships.
Mardi Gras or Fat Tuesday
Students get a chance to examine the monetary and environmental cost of this bead exuberance with our unit pricing and recycling activity.
Valentine’s Day + NBA All-Star Voting + Presidents’ Day
14 Activities to choose from for Presidents’ Day, NBA All-Star voting, and Valentine’s Day. What a week!
Movies and the upcoming Oscars
Compounded percent change; central tendencies; the weight of Rapunzel’s 70 feet of hair; Godzilla’s height by comparison; how to measure the profitability of a movie series; most appropriate graphical representations; line of best fit; and more …
Super Bowl and Ground Hog day (9 activities)
+ Even more NFL math! Super Bowl ads and scientific notation Updated! – On Monday, when the Super Bowl is over and all of the ads have been seen, use this scientific notation activity to involve math students in the talk of…
Typical Super Bowl Scores
Updated! In this activity students study historical Super Bowl data to reflect on average (mean, median, and mode), losing scores, winning scores, and range of scores. They are asked to judge which of these central measurements seem the most meaningful and explain…
Expensive Super Bowl ads
What will a 30-second Super Bowl ad cost this year? Next year? In the future? How would you describe this rise in cost?
Lunar New Year 2020 – Year of the Rat
Year of the Metal Rat Lunar New Year begins on Saturday, January 25th. This will be the year of the Metal Rat. The year name is a combination of 10 Heavenly Stems and 12 Earthly Branches creating a sequence of…
How steep is this treadmill?
In this very short activity, students get a memorable way to visualize a zero slope and an undefined slope.
It’s Girl Scout cookie time again!
Totally new activity! Let your students talk about their favorite Girl Scout cookies as they figure out what the local GS chapter really earns from these sales. Use this old graphic (where a box only costs $4.00) to figure out…
At last, the days are getting longer
As we’ve passed the darkest day, how will daylight hours change … gradually, linearly, suddenly? Time differences, patterns, play with cool online simulator.
Family fun math activities
Point of view – With any set of cubes, enjoy building this creation using our two view-point pictures. How many blocks are in my stack? What is the least number of blocks that I used? The most number of blocks that I used?…
Winter holidays – 17 activities
Three wrapping presents activities
3 activities about wrapping presents: On the diagonal, 3-act by estimation with iPhone, and judging sizes and needs by estimation with man and shopping basket.
Shipping crunch
Do huge numbers of packages shipped and huge numbers of packages delivered late mean that these two companies aren’t doing a good job? Talk numbers.