How many gumballs are there?
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...
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Banana Art "Comedian"
What do you think this activity might be about?
What do you wonder?
How much would you pay for this piece of art?
How much profit is involved in this sale?
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How big of a crepe can you make?
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...
Shrinkflation
Shrinkflation! What do you think this word means?
Inflation in the cost of living (2021) was estimated to be about a 7% rise.
If "shrinkflation" is happening at the same time, is t...
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. ...
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
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Math and Science
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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...