Holiday Candy Sales
In this activity, students will analyze U.S. holiday candy sales percentage data (updated) to calculate the approximate amount spent on candy for each holiday. Students are encouraged to work wi...
Food
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Mashed Potatoes Proportions
🥔 "Why do we never have enough mashed potatoes at Thanksgiving?" In this updatedactivity, students will dive into the math of mashed potatoes planning to ensu...
Shrinkflation - Updated
📈💵In this updated activity, students will explore shrinkflation and its impact on the products we love. Building on our starter slides discussi...
Chocolate Milk Account
🔔 Free Trial Alert! In this activity, students will explore a school milk account where money is deposited and deducted as chocolate milk is purchased over time. But first, start off with the&nbs...
Starbucks Sales and Nutrition
Kick off the activity with starter slides that spark curiosity by asking students if they recognize the Starbucks logo and how many locations they think are in the U.S. Then, engage them in estimating...
It's almost summer now
How much water do you have to drink? In this activity student develop formulas for calculating their water needs, learn about the effects of too lit...
Can Joey and Miki do it again?
Updated !
The MLE - Major League Eating is a World organization that oversees speed eating contests.
Entrants to the various competitions must be...
Father's Day and Juneteenth; 3 Activities
Algebra
Number Sense
Social Studies
Food
Holidays
Current events
Ratio and Proportion
Probability and Statistics
For Father's Day (Links to different activities) Thank you, mother and father, for all of those diapers - Students compare the cost of buying disposable versus cloth diape...
Chocolate heart-shaped raspberry cake
For Valentine's Day, bake a cake!
Students calculate base area or volume of cakes made from 2 cake pan sizes and observe how the volume of the cake changes with the increased pan size. &nbs...
How much caffeine are you consuming?
Did you know that there is an amount of caffeine that is too much for the growing brain of a teenager? We did some research and have asked students to examine the sources of caffei...