Fantasy Football
In the midst of another NFL season, we introduce students to Fantasy Football. Students first calculate football points given touchdowns, yardage gains and interceptions. They are t...
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Sol LeWitt's pyramid - How might you count those blocks?
Sol LeWitt, Four Sided Pyramid, 1999, Hirshhorn Museum Sculpture Garden, Washington DC
Sol LeWitt (1928 - 2007) was a an American artist involved in Conceptual art and Minimalism. &n...
Nike's latest bet
Nike has just chosen a surprising person to represent the 30th anniversary of their slogan, "Just Do It". Colin Kaepernick, past quarterback of the San Francisco 49ers, has been a subjec...
Madden Glitch
It's the talk of the town. Madden video games have had some issues. Check this one out.
Here's one that has Le'Veon Bell seeming to fly from the Bear's goal line to the center...
Fibonacci coloring
Let your students simply enjoy coloring our designs or artistically play with the whole creation of Φ designs.
Simply coloring our Fibonacci patterns might allow students to ponder th...
Impress your parents at dinner
This activity is the first in our series on mental math tricks. Let your students develop their own individual way of mentally multiplying by 0.5, 5, 50, 500, and so on. We have a litt...
More eruptions on Hawai'i's Kilauea
The Volcano Kilauea is continuing to spew molten lava and ash on the island of Hawai'i. This volcano is on the tip of the southern most Hawaiian Island. Is that significant?
In this activit...
How fast can you run?
Have you heard of The Six Million Dollar Man? He was the character in a science fiction show about an astronaut that was rebuilt, bionically, after his space ship crashed. He could run a...
Jackie Robinson
April 15th, 1947 was a date to remember. Jackie Robinson became the first African-American baseball player to play in Major League Baseball since the game was segregated in the 1890s. Robinson...
Want to earn $150,000? - Mersenne prime search
What's a Mersenne prime? How hard could it be to find the next one?
Why are there only 50 known Mersenne primes? What's with $150,000?