This day is known for pranks and puzzles.
Try one of these 4 activities on April Fools Day.
Ask students to analyze where I made my mistake
For members we have solutions. PerplexingProblem-solution.pdf
CCSS: MP1, MP3, 4.OA, 5.G, 8.EE, 8.SP
Or baffle 'em with this Mystical Mathematical Mind Reader activity. They will think you are pulling one over on them until they figure out the math!
CCSS: 4.OA.4, 5.OA.1, HSA.CED.A.2, MP1, MP3, MP4, MP7, MP8
North America from space. Elements furnished by NASA - https://www.noaa.gov/stories/what-are-atmospheric-rivers
How are they ranked? Students become familiar with this weather phenomena and learn how the different ARs are measured. To more fully understand their power, students compare the strength of an AR to the momentum of a Mack truck. They need to convert meters/second to miles/hour. How strong are ARs really? Are they all dangerous?
The activity: AtmosphericRiver.pdf
March Madness Men's and Women's Brackets
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This year there will are 68 men's and 64 women's college basketball teams in the tournaments.
If you try to predict how the games will play out by filling out a bracket, what are your chances of picking every game? How does the change from 64 to 65 to now, 68 teams in the field complicate things? How many brackets would you need to fill out to pick every possibility?
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What's with the March Equinox? Does it really affect our lives? Is it just some astronomical occurrence? Students calculate the daylight hours at the March Equinox by time between longest and shortest days. They examine the progression of those daylight hour changes and look for a pattern.
The activity: SpringEquinoxDayLength.pdf
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March Madness, the big 68 team college basketball tournament, will now take over our TV viewing during the weekends of March. School and office friends are filling out brackets. Engage your students in percents as they get excited about March Madness. Is getting a higher seed really an advantage? Use 30 years of data to help determine for which seeds it makes sense to pick an upset. Finally, students determine a general strategy for picking games in the first round.
Shamrocks in Ireland are actually 3-leafed white clover, trifolium repens. If you are lucky, you can sometimes find a four-leafed clover. How rare is finding a 4-leafed clover? How hard do you have to look? What size area of clover must you examine to find one?
The activity: 4-leafedClover.pdf