Vampire Bats
🦇In this updated activity, students explore how vampire bats drink half their body weight in blood in just 20 minutes. Using proportional reasoning and unit ...
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Bye bye Antibiotic Chickens
🐔Fast food chains like McDonald’s, Chick-fil-A, Panera Bread, Chipotle, and Whole Foods are moving toward removing antibiotics from the food we consume to hel...
How much snow is that?
❄️In this updated activity, students will estimate, calculate, and analyze the weight of a snow pile sitting on top of a car. Using real-world data, they’ll apply math to determine if...
Stone Ice Storage
In this activity, students will estimate the volume of the Seokbinggo, a centuries-old stone structure, and compare it to the size of their home fridge. Through the activity, students will be gi...
Mashed Potatoes Proportions
🥔 "Why do we never have enough mashed potatoes at Thanksgiving?" In this updatedactivity, students will dive into the math of mashed potatoes planning to ensu...
Shrinkflation - Updated
📈💵In this updated activity, students will explore shrinkflation and its impact on the products we love. Building on our starter slides discussi...
Cookie Calculations
In this activity, students will step into the kitchen to explore the math behind baking!
🍪They’ll estimate costs, calculate how many cookies can be made with a given am...
Candy Count: Which Bag Holds the Most Candy
🎃Leverage 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, ...
Starbucks Sales and Nutrition
Kick off the activity with starter slides that spark curiosity by asking students if they recognize the Starbucks logo and how many locations they think are in the U.S. Then, engage them in estimating...
How much pee is in your pool (Updated)
How much pee is in your pool? 🏊🏊
After chlorination, it has been hard to measure the quantity of pollutants in pool water. A Canadian chemist, Xing-Fa...