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🎁🎁In this updated activity, students will use math to explore two methods of wrapping gifts, including the mathematical method demonstrated by Sara Santos. They'll calculate the dimensions of...
🥔 "Why do we never have enough mashed potatoes at Thanksgiving?" In this updatedactivity, students will dive into the math of mashed potatoes planning to ensure there’s plenty...
🎃Leverage your students' Halloween enthusiasm with this activity, where they’ll calculate the volume of various trick-or-treat bags—ranging from rectangular prisms to spheres, cylinders, and cones to discover which...
In this activity, students will explore how to design a ghost costume 👻 👻 by reasoning through sheet dimensions, calculating the best fit for different heights, and interpreting...
We have 2 activities to support this silly, but awesome holiday -- National Donut Day (June 5th) : How much have donuts changed? Students become familiar with the...
Updated in April 2026 with new data; see the answer key. How much do we spend on Mother's Day? Use the Mother's Day event to engage your students...
Image by kjpargeter on Freepik It's a gorgeous ball, covered with Waterford Crystal triangles, shaped as a geodesic icosahedron. Every New Year's Eve it descends in Times Square...
This activity will be updated before October, 2026. Stay tuned! On Veterans Day we honor the men and women that have served in the Armed Forces of the...
In this activity students try to figure out how time settings will change as they move from place to place and in the serious weirdness of Arizona and...
Every year more and more people come to our house on Thanksgiving morning for my (Leslie's)famous pumpkin pie and a hike in the nearby woods. This year 23...
The Nobel Prizes have just been awarded. This is the medal that is given to the winners. What do you know about the Nobel Prize? Who do you...
When Columbus landed in Guanahani (renamed San Salvador, Bahama Islands by Columbus), he began the European settlement of the New World. Guanahani was inhabited by the Taíno people...