It’s time to dye eggs … or make a rainbow colored cake. Proportions, saturation, hue and shade.
Mixing colors with food dye
Tag: 5th
Weird and spooky puzzles for April Fool’s Day
This day is known for pranks and puzzles. Try one of these 4 activities on April Fools Day. Ask students to analyze where I made my mistake PerplexingProblem.pdf For members we have solutions. PerplexingProblem-solution.pdf …
Pascal coloring and modular math
Clock math, 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,1,2,3,4,5,6,7… is modular math. Let your students learn about the usefulness of modular math as they color and explore Pascal’s Triangle. Very pretty math!
Some of our activities that are good for at-home learning
We’ve got hundreds of great activities that demonstrate how math happens all around us. Let your student choose an activity that interests him/her and enjoy the discoveries.
Is there much of a difference between 99.9% or 99.999%?
Use our present need for cleanliness to engage your students. Does it really matter whether you kill 99.9% of the bacteria or 99.999% of the germs? In this 3-act activity we’ve asked students to consider whether these claims about these…
Celebrate Saint Patrick’s Day (3 activities)
Finding 4-leaf clovers! Shamrocks in Ireland are actually be 3-leafed white clover, trifolium repens. If you are lucky, you can sometimes find a four-leafed clover. How rare is finding a 4-leafed clover? How hard do you have to look? What…
The R-naught number of the coronavirus
We’re still learning about the coronavirus and its ability to and tendencies toward infection and spread. Students learn about the R-naught number which is a measure of infectious growth. Real-world mathematics!
It’s time to gear up for Pi Day
8 activities to help celebrate π in your school and in your math class. Activities that demonstrate how π was derived; visually show why π makes sense; show a surprising place where π is used; increase students ability to measure and long divide; applauds the talent of people who can memorize large strings of numbers; and lets students just have fun.
Iditarod – The Last Great Race
The Iditarod Dog Sled Race will begin this year on Saturday, March 7th in Anchorage, Alaska. It is often called The Last Great Race on Earth because it is so long and grueling. Students do some rate, distance, and hardship comparisons to decide…
Gonna be a Leap Year
This year we will add the 29th of February to our year? Why do we do that? How can you tell? What if we didn’t add a day every 4 years? Calendar math and flow charts.
Mardi Gras or Fat Tuesday
Students get a chance to examine the monetary and environmental cost of this bead exuberance with our unit pricing and recycling activity.
K-Pop and BTS, how much can they earn from Youtube and Spotify?
How much could this K-pop group possibly earn on Youtube and Spotify? Unit ratio calculations. BTS
Valentine’s Day + NBA All-Star Voting + Presidents’ Day
14 Activities to choose from for Presidents’ Day, NBA All-Star voting, and Valentine’s Day. What a week!
Movies and the upcoming Oscars
Compounded percent change; central tendencies; the weight of Rapunzel’s 70 feet of hair; Godzilla’s height by comparison; how to measure the profitability of a movie series; most appropriate graphical representations; line of best fit; and more …
02022020
What do you wonder? Why is this string of digits special? What will be the next number like this one?