Collecting the most candy
Use your student’s Halloween enthusiasm to do a study on volumes. We’ve created an activity that asks students to calculate the volume of candy containers that are silly and intriguing. ...
Math and Food
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Chuck E. Cheese needed to shred
Restaurants have been having a hard time and Chuck E. Cheese, with their arcade games and hands on everything, needed to declare bankruptcy during the pandemic. 7 BILLION previously printed tickets ...
Just ONE hot dog
Algebra
Number Sense
Math and Science
Math and Food
Sports
Ratio and Proportion
Data and probability
A newly released nutritional and environmentally sustainable study shows that eating just one hot dog can take 36 minutes off your total healthy lifespan.
How many would you have to eat to lo...
That's a big tomato!
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?
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...
Can I get your order right?
You can order a ton of combos at Chipotle. They advertise that there are 65,000 ways to order their meals. Do you think that is correct?
Here's an article on the permutatio...
Peeps
How many Peeps are sold at Easter time each year?
Students estimate the number of Peeps sold each Easter season. They consider reasonability by making guesses they think might b...
Dunkin's Go2s
Last year, Dunkin Donuts offered a great deal for getting two breakfast sandwiches at a pretty low cost.
Check out their poster for the sandwich costs and pictures.
Can you figure ou...
How should I spend my rewards?
There's a new way to earn rewards at many grocery stores. For every dollar that you spend, you accumulate points. Then there are special rewards where you earn an extra 500 points for ...
Not enough mashed potatoes
Using his famous mashed potato recipe, Brian has asked students
to change decimals to fractions,
to calculate ingredient measures for various-si...