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What's your favorite sport?

Algebra Number Sense Sports Probability and Statistics
What is your favorite sport?  Wait, do I mean your favorite sport to play or your favorite sport to watch? Does it matter? Are your favorite to-watch sport and your favorite to-play sport the sam...

How Much is a Tweet Worth?

Algebra Number Sense Social Studies Sports Ratio and Proportion Probability and Statistics
These days it seems everyone is on social media. Are you? Famous athletes and entertainers are on social media and they can make a lot of money.  In this activity students study how ...

What's with the plovers?

Algebra Number Sense Science Ratio and Proportion Probability and Statistics
Cute little birds.  Piping plovers are nesting on beaches along the Atlantic coast. Consequently beaches are often roped-off or closed to protect their nests and chicks. Is this conservatio...

Growth of Facebook

Algebra Number Sense Ratio and Proportion Probability and Statistics
 In this activity, students analyze and graph the numbers and decide if Facebook's growth in the first 20 years has been linear, exponential, meteoric, or something else.  Will the number of...

Saffron and paella

Algebra Number Sense Science Food
In order to cook Paella (a delicious Spanish rice dish) I needed to buy Saffron spice.  It was hugely expensive.  So, I've decided to start a business of growing saffron and becoming immen...

The growth of Godzilla

Algebra Number Sense Geometry Probability and Statistics
Image from Kris Holt: http://www.policymic.com/articles/76357/the-scary-way-godzilla-has-evolved-through-the-years-in-one-chart The new Godzilla movie is out at theaters.  ...

The Fiscal Cliff - sounds scary

Number Sense Social Studies
We've used a graphic to help students understand what is meant by the Fiscal Cliff.  Students will understand some of the terms and study the consequences of two upcoming scenarios.   The...

My Facebook IPO investment

Number Sense Social Studies
What is an IPO?  Are they always good investments? Students analyze charts and data, learn a little about investing, calculate percent loss (unfortunately), and make some Facebook stock proj...

It sure is cold out ... or is it?

Algebra Number Sense Science Probability and Statistics
Students ponder the relationship between place latitudes and average January temperatures while they try to discover a correlation. Is this a linear or near linear relationship? … averaging, mis...
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