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Super Bowl ads and scientific notation
The Super Bowl is over now and all of the ads have been seen. Let your students revisit and reflect on the interesting commercials with this scientific notation a...
How many wings did the Bills send the Bengals?
Cincinnati Bengals serving their thank-you gift from the Buffalo Bills to the Autism High School at the Children's Home of Cincinnati
On December 31st, 2017, the Cincinnati Benga...
Greasing light poles
The Philadelphia police were being proactive about keeping their enthusiastic Eagles fans from being reckless as they celebrated their 2018 Super Bowl win. So, the police departments...
Cost of hosting Olympic games
Hosting the Olympics sure does cost a lot. Why is that? How much money is $5 billion dollars? What is a cost overrun? Why would a country want to spend that much money to host and Olympic Game...
Is my son going to win again?
Brian son's pretty young but is he still going to whoop his dad? They were playing Monopoly Junior. Can you decide who will win? In this activity use addition and/or multiplicatio...
Population Clock
How in the world does this clock conclude that there is a net gain in the United States of one person every 14 seconds?
Have a little care about younger children when using this activity. T...
Immigration numbers
Here's an opportunity to work with calculating percents and the percent changes in the U.S. immigrant population. Students can reflect on what those changes demonstrate.
Start your class with this ...
Uh oh! Am I going to run out of data?
Let your students consider the graphic first individually and then in groups of your choosing before handing out the activity sheet. This might be an excellent beginning-of-the-year, get-to-kn...
Should I get the Big One?
Let your students decide if the BIG one is a fair deal. Which size will they get? Which size offers the most value? Make a guess, then do the math.