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Boeing 787 draws an airplane over the United States

Number Sense Geometry Ratio and Proportion

Recently, pilots of a Boeing 787 testing a new set of Rolls Royce engines, fulfilled their FAA required long-distance endurance requirement in an unusual way. The Boeing pilots decided to have ...

Big Air snowboarding

Number Sense Geometry Math and Science Sports Holidays and Annual Events

Starting February 18th a new Olympic sport will be televised ... Big Air Snowboarding. Some of your students may be officianados of snowboarding. Using this activity could be an opportunity to l...

Let students explore the patterns of perfect squares and Pythagorean Triples as they analyze our piece of art and decide why the resulting construction looks like spiraling squares. For a finale the...

Giant iceberg

Number Sense Geometry Math and Science Ratio and Proportion Data and probability

Ferryland, Newfoundland. JODY MARTIN / REUTERS Over the past Easter weekend this giant iceberg drifted passed Ferryland, Newfoundland. Its hard to tell how large it actually is but...

Alarming ice cracks on Brunt Ice Sheet in Antarctica

Algebra Number Sense Geometry Math and Science

A new, fast-growing ice crack is forcing the Halley VI British research station in Antarctica (shown above) to be moved. Fear of a huge break-off from the ice sheet is alarming no...

Civil rights marches, how do you count a crowd?

Number Sense Geometry Math and Social Studies Holidays and Annual Events

On October 16, 1995, perhaps a million black men gathered for the Million Man March on Washington. This was 32 years after Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his histo...

How much have doughnuts changed?

Algebra Number Sense Geometry Math and Food

Part of the Smithsonian's Sally L. Steinberg Collection of Doughnut Ephemera -- Click on the image to see it larger. When you are working on volume in your class, you can use this activi...

McDonalds moves towards antibiotic-free chicken

Number Sense Geometry Math and Science Math and Food Ratio and Proportion

Recently McDonald's announced that by 2016 they will use only chicken raised without the antibiotics that are used in human medicine. McDonald's plans to join Chick-fil-A, Pa...

A parametric heart ... with love

Number Sense Geometry Holidays and Annual Events Math and Art

Valentine's Day is a good excuse to explore parametric equations. First students figure the coordinates of this figure using trigonometric unit triangles. Then they simplify and accelerate...

HDTV Surprise!

Number Sense Geometry

How were your holidays? Your school vacation? Mine was good. I surprised my family with this HDTV, which I wrapped and hung on our wall. The size of an HDTV is determined by ...

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