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Federal debt and deficit - What are they?

Number Sense Social Studies Current events Ratio and Proportion Probability and Statistics
What's the big deal with our national debt?  Do we actually borrow money to cover our debt?  If we do, imagine the interest charges? Help your students (and their families) understa...

Chuck E. Cheese needed to shred

Number Sense Social Studies Food Current events Probability and Statistics
Restaurants have been having a hard time and Chuck E. Cheese, with their arcade games and hands on everything, needed to declare bankruptcy during the pandemic. 7 BILLION previously printed tickets ...

Death Valley, CA - How hot was it?

Algebra Number Sense Science Ratio and Proportion Probability and Statistics
  This picture may have been Photoshopped and not be a true representation.  We blacked out the Fahrenheit reading of this temperature sign at the Death Valley Visitor ...

Just ONE hot dog

Algebra Number Sense Science Food Sports Ratio and Proportion Probability and Statistics
A newly released nutritional and environmentally sustainable study shows that eating just one hot dog can take 36 minutes off your total healthy lifespan. How many would you have to eat to lo...

That's a big tomato!

Algebra Number Sense Geometry Food Ratio and Proportion
These Aussi tomatoes (the tomato on the left of all of the tomatoes) are huge.   How much do you guess one weighs? Can you figure it out?

Let's learn to gerrymander

Geometry Social Studies Current events Ratio and Proportion
In this activity student first try to redistrict our pretend state in order to preserve the overall state's balance in its new districting plan.  Then, students redistrict our pretend state in a ...

The new R-naught number

Algebra Number Sense Science Current events Probability and Statistics
There's a number used to quantify how fast a virus will spread, the R-naught number.  As the coronavirus spread though out the world, we saw how the threat of infection was measured and und...

Need to rent some chaise lounges

Algebra Ratio and Proportion
Brian is in Crete and he took a picture of this sign. What do you suppose he's going to ask next? Yep.  "How much will 6 lounges and 2 umbrellas cost?"  And more ... Systems begin. ...

Olympic Skateboarding

Algebra Number Sense Sports Current events Probability and Statistics
We are very excited to see skateboarding as an event in the Tokyo Olympics.  Skateboarding is athletic, artistic and difficult to master.  Why has it taken so long to become an Olympic ...

Ranked Choice Voting in NYC

Algebra Number Sense Social Studies Current events Ratio and Proportion Probability and Statistics
New York City is still tallying its election results for a new Mayor.  This year they tried Ranked Choice Voting.  What does that mean? How does that work?  What are the ramificat...
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