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How many baseballs are in this truck?

Algebra Geometry Sports Any time math

In 2017, Old Dominion Freight Line offered 2 free tickets to the next 3 World Series to the person who guesses closest to "How many baseballs are in this truck?". Alas, the contest ended on Au...

Throwing Up 2023

Algebra Geometry Math and Science

This year, Buffalo, New York, has had more than 100 inches of snow this winter. We imagine that the height of the tunnel to people's homes is getting pretty high. It's hard to shovel new snow when y...

Do I have enough wrapping paper?

Algebra Number Sense Geometry Holidays and Annual Events 3-act tasks

In this problem based activity students first guess and then try to calculate whether they will have enough paper to wrap this present without taping pieces of wrapping paper together. Con...

Wrapping presents on the diagonal

Algebra Number Sense Geometry Holidays and Annual Events

Dr. Sara Santos is a popular mathematician and speaker on mathematics. She has worked out a method for wrapping boxes (rectangular prisms) as efficiently as possible. (W...

That's a big tomato!

Algebra Number Sense Geometry Math and Food Ratio and Proportion

These Aussi tomatoes (the tomato on the left of all of the tomatoes) are huge. How much do you guess one weighs? Can you figure it out?

Tiny vacuum with a huge reach

Algebra Number Sense Geometry 3-act tasks

From the vacuum description and advertisement in the PDF, how long do you think its cord must be? Thanks to Brian Shoemaker, Newton, MA teacher, for the idea and pictures.

Parabolic Pee

Algebra Math and Science

Mr. Mark's new little baby can make some amazingly tall streams. Give your class a little chuckle as you introduce them to parabolic motion with this very short analysis of Mr. Mark's baby's...

Why Does it Stay in Orbit?