Activities about 8th
"How many Peeps do you think are sold for Easter in the U.S.?" In this updated activity, students start by making their own guesses for the number of...
5 Activities for π day! What is π? The logic of finding the perimeters of inscribed and circumscribed polygons as the number of sides to the polygons increases....
On a cold and snowy day in Boston about ten years ago, two chefs created a huge Key Lime pie to remind the frozen people of the Northeast...
Celebrate Valentine’s Day with our activities: Have a heart (Canstruction) Students use reasoning and approximation to analyze the number of cans of food contained in this one giant...
This year, the 30-second Super Bowl ads will cost about 8 million dollars! Do you wonder how much one ad will cost next year? In 5 years? In...
Hosting the Olympic Games is extremely expensive. In this updated activity, students explore the cost of hosting the Olympics, what a cost overrun (percentage increase) means, and how...
On Groundhog Day (February 2nd), Punxsutawney Phil will again, with great ceremony, come out of his burrow and look for his shadow. In this updated activity, students will...
Super Bowl numbers are appearing again! As students start getting into the current Super Bowl hype, help them to understand the notation that the sports writers and advertisements...
As the new year approaches (where did the time go!!?), our annual activity has students explore not-so-common number categories to investigate whether 2026 fits into any of these....
Every year, even older students still get mixed up about horizontal and vertical slopes. Students do understand “rise over run,” but when it comes to horizontal and vertical...
We're at the midway point of the 2025 NFL season! What a great time to connect math to sports!🏈 In this activity, students use real statistics from recent...
College costs keep rising, and it can be hard for students to grasp just how much four years of school might add up to. This updated activity gives...