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Chocolate heart-shaped raspberry cake

Geometry Math and Food Holidays and Annual Events Math and 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...

Lots of Cranberries

Geometry Math and Food Holidays and Annual Events Ratio and Proportion

The harvest must be nearing completion now and growers are selling their product to make cranberry juice, jelly, sauce, and of course, fresh berries in time for Thanksgiving. In this activit...

How many gumballs are there?

Number Sense Geometry Math and Food Data and probability

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 Math and 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...

Collecting the most candy

Number Sense Geometry Math and Food Holidays and Annual Events

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. ...

That's a big tomato!

Algebra Number Sense Geometry Math and 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 Math and Science Math and 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 Math and 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...

Huge Key Lime pie

Number Sense Geometry Math and Food Ratio and Proportion

More for π Day! On a cold and snowy day in Boston, two chefs created a huge Key Lime pie to remind the frozen people of the Northeast how tasty and warm the Keys of Florida are. ...

How much have doughnuts changed?