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...
Number Sense
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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, cylinders, and con...
Chocolate Milk Account
🔔 Free Trial Alert! In this activity, students will explore a school milk account where money is deposited and deducted as chocolate milk is purchased over time. But first, start off with the&nbs...
Money Making Movies
Do you enjoy watching movies?🎬 Have you ever wondered just how much money your f...
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...
A Glass of Sweat
What is this machine for?
Begin with the starter presentation slides to spark students' curiosity about the purpose of the machine. Then, engage them in the main activ...
It's almost summer now
Algebra
Number Sense
Geometry
Math and Science
Math and Food
Ratio and Proportion
Data and probability
How much water do you have to drink? In this activity student develop formulas for calculating their water needs, learn about the effects of too lit...
How much does America spend for Mother’s Day?
Updated in April 2026 with new data; see the answer key.How much do we spend on Mother's Day? Use the Mother's Day event to engage your students (as a class) in approximating, reasoning, and investiga...
Earth Day Actions for Our Planet (April 22)
We have 16 activities that you could use for Earth Day! April 22nd is Earth Day. Help your students become activists for our planet? We have 16 activities that...