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Candy Count: Which Bag Holds the Most Candy
Number Sense Geometry Food Holidays
 ðŸŽƒLeverage your students' Halloween enthusiasm with this activity, where they’ll calculate the volume of various trick-or-treat bags—ranging from rectangular prisms to spheres, cylinders, and con...

Two 12s or one 18?
Number Sense Geometry Food
A little more pizza fun before Pi day! Which should we order and why? Two 12-inch pizzas or one 18-inch pizza?  Which will give you more pizza? More crust? Which is the better deal?  ...

Chocolate heart-shaped raspberry cake
Geometry Food Holidays Art
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 many gumballs are there?
Number Sense Geometry Food Probability and Statistics
Gumball Machine Problem from Brian Marks on Vimeo This problem is a little puzzle to get your students thinking, estimating, and calculating. We've given you a pdf file w...

How big of a crepe can you make?
Algebra Number Sense Geometry Food Ratio and Proportion
At Costco you can buy this huge tub of nutella.  It contains nearly 7 pounds of chocolaty-hazelnut spread. We use nutella to make banana/nutella crepes.  How long will that tub last u...

That's a big tomato!
Algebra Number Sense Geometry 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?

Do caffeinated drinks have similar amounts of jolt?
Geometry Science Food Ratio and Proportion
We found this interesting caffeine infographic at visual.ly. Wonderings? How many McDonalds coffees do I need to get the same amount of caffeine that I would get i...

Largest coffee, new world record
Algebra Number Sense Geometry Food
The world record for the largest cup of coffee was recently set (see picture above).  In this activity students explore scale, similar figures, volume and measurement as they estimate the...

How much have doughnuts changed?
Algebra Number Sense Geometry Food
Part of the Smithsonian's Sally L. Steinberg Collection of Doughnut Ephemera -- Click on the image to see it larger. When you are working on volume in your class, you can use this activi...

Is this possible?
Algebra Number Sense Geometry Food
Brian Shoemaker, a Newton, MA mathematics teacher, saw this Dunkin Donuts Mazda traveling down the road.   He wondered if that size coffee cup could really have coffee in it. &nbs...
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