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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, and offering a goo...
Data and Probability ratio division measurement Halloween decimal 6.RP.2 6.RP.3 6.RP.1 5.NBT.7 5.NBT.5 5.MD.1 6th 7th 5th 5.NBT.4 5.NBT.6 multipication candy

Make a costume from a sheet
Algebra Geometry Holidays and Annual Events
  Whoops! Maybe I need a larger sheet.  I'm going to make a costume pattern to sell.  People can buy my plan and make awesome, long, full, scary, ghost costumes.  This scheme...
measurement Halloween radius 6th 7th 5th 7.G.B circles 6.G.A.4 7.G.A

Largest coffee, new world record
Algebra Number Sense Geometry Math and Food
The world record for the largest cup of coffee was recently set (see picture above).  In this activity students explore scale, similar figures, volume and measurement as they estimate the...
proportion measurement scale Volume circle cylinder metric simliar figures 8.G.9 G.MG.1 G.GMD.3 7th 8th HS HSG-MG.A.1 coffee

New Horizons spacecraft just flew by a really distant asteroid
Algebra Number Sense Math and Science Current events Ratio and Proportion Data and probability
Brian May, the lead guitarist of the rock band, Queen, is also an astrophysicist and one of the science team collaborators of the New Horizons space program. The video below is the song that he wrot...
7.EE MP2 6th 7th 8th HS 5th 5.MD.A 6.RP.A proportional reasoning measurement conversion astronomy distance

Macy's Thanksgiving Parade 2019
Algebra Number Sense Geometry Holidays and Annual Events
 As we get ready for next week's holiday, students can study a map of the annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade, describe, measure and hypothesize why this route was chosen and then calculate...
measurement Volume 7.G.1 rates Thanksgiving New York parade whole numbers scale drawing 7.NS.3 6.NS.3 HSG-MG.1 4.MD.2 5.MD.1 6th 7th 8th HS 5th 4th 4.NBT.4 4.MD.1 5.NBT.6 5.MD.5b metric conversion sphere volume holiday time time rate distance

Passover macaroons
Algebra Number Sense Math and Food Holidays and Annual Events
Passover begins this year on Wednesday evening, April 5th, 2023, with a Passover seder dinner. Passover is one of the three high holidays in the Jewish religion and celebrates the Exodus of Jews f...
ratio Fractions measurement patterns food 6.NS 7.NS 5.NF 7.EE MP7 MP8 6th 7th 8th 5th

How large a TV should I get?
Algebra Number Sense Geometry
Whether you are in middle school or high school, someday you are going to be moving out and you might need to select the right size HDTV for your living space. I found this guide th...
7.G.1 MP1 6th 7th 5th 5MD.1 MP6 MP4 ratio measurement scale Scale drawings Pythagorean Theorem

California wildfire
Number Sense Geometry Math and Science
Wildfires are burning in the Sierra Nevada Mountains near Yosemite National Park.  In this activity we ask students to examine various maps of this California region, calculate distances us...
Data and Probability measurement scale 7.G.1 ratios 7.RP.3 5.NF 6.G.1 6th 7th 8th 5th area

Cruising
Algebra Number Sense Math and Science Math and Food Ratio and Proportion Data and probability
There have been a lot of cruise ship mishaps and disasters this year. While these are in the news, let your students consider how these floating cities manage their resources and which of their need...
proportion ratio measurement Unit rate Data food news 6.RP.3 7.RP.3 5.NBT.7 7.NS.3 6.NS.3 6th 7th 8th 5th MP6

Storm cleanup
Algebra Number Sense Geometry Ratio and Proportion
This activity could be used as an introduction to trig ratios.  Students figure out the approximate length of the huge branch that I have to fell for safety and firewood. After approximating ...
Data and Probability measurement estimation trigonometry 7.RP G-SRT 7th 8th HS 8-RP weather HSG-MG.A HSG.SRT.C
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