Willy Makeit or Betty Wont
I have to go to the bathroom pretty badly. I have to admit that I have been holding it in for a while. Finally! I see a bathroom sign! Wait ... it is in kilometers? How...
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How old are you?
We usually give our ages in years, but that isn't very precise is it? In this activity students find their age in days, hours and minutes. First students take two minutes to estimate the...
What time should I wake up?
I'm going to surprise my mom with breakfast in bed for Mother's Day. She wakes up pretty early. When do I have to wake up to pull this off?
Beijing Olympic Schedule 2022
The Winter Olympics begins this week in Beijing.
Wikipedia had this schedule of events. We think that there is a lot of information missing and apparent in this graphic.
What can you tell, wha...
The James Webb telescope
After launch, the telescope deployed on its 30-day, million-mile journey out to the second Lagrange point (L2). This video shows the deployment procedure, timeline, and location of the sate...
Just ONE hot dog
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...
What is Juneteenth?
You can appreciate why this is such a great celebration when you look at the stages and some of the events and dates of America moving towards freedom from slavery.
In this activ...
At least the days are getting longer
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Ratio and Proportion
Probability and Statistics
What's your guess? How fast are the number of daylight hours changing each day? Are the changes dramatic or subtle?
Students make guesses; compute how l...
Crazy basketball score
Wow! Look at that score!
There were some scoreboard malfunctions in this December 15, 2020, pre-season game.
What might have been the final score if this game progressed at this rate?
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December 21, 2020 - Great conjunction
Right now, just after sunset, in the southwest sky, you can check out the planets of Jupiter and Saturn as they get closer and closer to each other. They are millions of miles apart but they app...