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Impress your parents at dinner
Algebra Number Sense
This activity is the first in our series on mental math tricks.  Let your students develop their own individual way of mentally multiplying by 0.5, 5, 50, 500, and so on.  We have a litt...
5.NBT MP7 MP8 mental math 6th 7th 8th HS 5th MP6 4.NBT.B

Will Damarious Randall have to pay big?
Number Sense Sports Current events 3-act tasks
Warriors won the NBA Championships.  Randall won't have to buy jerseys!  The Cleveland Brown's safety player, Damarious Randall, posted this tweet.  Its been ...
estimation 6.RP.3 MP1 5.NBT.5 6th 5th basketball

More eruptions on Hawai'i's Kilauea
Algebra Geometry Science Current events Ratio and Proportion
The Volcano Kilauea is continuing to spew molten lava and ash on the island of Hawai'i. This volcano is on the tip of the southern most Hawaiian Island. Is that significant? In this activit...
6th 7th 8th 5th 4th geography 4.MD.A 6.EE.C 8.G.A 8.F.A geology tectonic motion rate calculations translation HSG.CO.A ratio unit rates

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 ...
ratios MP1 6th 7th 8th HS HSG HSN-Q 8.G.B MP5 7.G.A 7.EE.B Scale drawings

How fast can you run?
Algebra Number Sense Science Ratio and Proportion Probability and Statistics
Have you heard of The Six Million Dollar Man?  He was the character in a science fiction show about an astronaut that was rebuilt, bionically, after his space ship crashed.  He could run a...
6th 7th 8th 5th 5.MD.A HSA 6.RP.A conversions dimensional analysis unit factors time rate distance

Jackie Robinson
Algebra Social Studies Sports Probability and Statistics
April 15th, 1947 was a date to remember.  Jackie Robinson became the first African-American baseball player to play in Major League Baseball since the game was segregated in the 1890s. Robinson...
baseball MLB average rate trend 6.EE.9 6.SP.3 7.EE.3 7.EE.4 8.F.4 HSF-LE.A.2 MP1 MP2 HSF-LE.A.3 history 6th 7th 8th HS MP4 data analysis

What me? Irrational?
Number Sense
We've found that some students believe that the approximation that their calculators show for irrational numbers is exact.  Here's an activity that you can advertise as long multiplication ...
5.NBT.7 5.NBT 7.NS.3 6.NS.3 8.NS.1 8.EE 8.G 6th 7th 8th 5th irrational numbers square roots multiplication

Pizza party figuring
Number Sense Geometry Food
  In this activity students decide how to divide 2 pizzas amongst 6 adults and 3 pizzas amongst 8 kids.  Fractional pizza parts need to be drawn and considerations discussed about which f...
Fractions MP2 MP3 MP7 6th 5th 4th fraction representations 5.NF.3 fraction operations elementary food

Want to earn $150,000? - Mersenne prime search
Algebra Number Sense
What's a Mersenne prime?  How hard could it be to find the next one? Why are there only 50 known Mersenne primes?     What's with $150,000?
6.EE MP1 MP7 MP8 prime numbers 8.EE 5.OA 6th 7th 8th HS 5th 4.OA MP5 exponent create equations

Curling
Geometry Science Sports
Friction, score-keeping, trajectory and weirdness are the main concepts in this activity.  Curling is not a well-understood sport but the science and strategy are easily understoo...
MP3 6th 7th 8th HS 5th modeling scoring friction trajectory spin curling rotation sports
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