How should I cook my turkey?
Should I oven bake it, deep fry it or barbecue and smoke it? When do I have to wake up to begin preparations? How long will the cooking take? How much will it cost? How ma...
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Operation Gratitude – Halloween candy buy back
Algebra
Number Sense
Math and Social Studies
Math and Food
Holidays and Annual Events
Ratio and Proportion
Data and probability
This is a great idea! Motivate kids to get rid of all of that candy for a good cause. Operation Gratitude and dentists are encouraging healthy eating, motivated giving, an...
Does it pay to get educated?
Why should students do well in school, graduate high school, or go on to college? In this activity median earnings by various education levels are explored. Students compare t...
Who's going back to school?
Students look at the past and present populations of the U.S. and the past and present population of school attendees to calculate the percentage of the population that are enrolled in K-12 school...
What's the answer?
Image by Twitter user @pjmdoll.
Math doesn't usually create a buzz on Twitter. This past week this post did just that. People argued online about whether the answer was 16 or...
Bears Ears revisited
There is some beautiful land in Utah that was changed last year from federally protected land to Utah overseen land. The buttes of Bears Ears (shown above) and the surrounding territory cont...
Spiraling squares - compass and straight edge
Can you see the many spirals in this design?
Students calculate the size of each increasing round of squares and consider what sort of spirals these must be.
Work...
NHL Playoff games can sure last a long time!
Revised!
We're watching another Stanley Cup playoff now. Will there be any really long games during the playoffs?
In 2013, a Stanley Cup playoff match between the Bruins and Blackhawks wen...
Can this possibly be True?
This activity is being updated =). Could this possibly be true? What is reasonable? How do you check? Do you believe everything that you hear or read? Do you fact-check?While consider...
Huge Key Lime pie
More for π Day!
On a cold and snowy day in Boston, two chefs created a huge Key Lime pie to remind the frozen people of the Northeast how tasty and warm the Keys of Florida are.
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