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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

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

Big Air snowboarding
Number Sense Geometry Science Sports Holidays
Starting February 18th a new Olympic sport will be televised ... Big Air Snowboarding.  Some of your students may be officianados of snowboarding. Using this activity could be an opportunity to l...
MP7 6th 7th 8th HS rotation HSG.CO MP4 8.G.A reflection Deciphering graphics HS.G sports snow

Super Bowl ads and scientific notation
Algebra Number Sense Holidays
The Super Bowl is over now and all of the ads have been seen. Let your students revisit and reflect on the interesting commercials with this scientific notation a...
Data and Probability scientific notation exponent 6.EE.2 8.EE.3 8.EE.4 7th 8th HS 5.NBT.1 5.NBT.2 8.EE.1 HSA.SSE.A.1 operations with exponents powers of ten SuperBowl

Greasing light poles
Algebra Geometry Social Studies Sports Current events
The Philadelphia police were being proactive about keeping their enthusiastic Eagles fans from being reckless as they celebrated their 2018 Super Bowl win.  So, the police departments...
estimation surface area 8.G 6th 7th 8th HS 7.G.B 6.G.A MP5 6.EE.A cylinder surface area sports football

The Olympic Torch trip in South Korea
Social Studies Sports Current events Ratio and Proportion Probability and Statistics
On October 24, 2017, the Olympic flame was captured on Mount Olympus, Greece. That flame lit one of this year's Olympic Torches and the Torch relay was begun on its way to the opening Winter Olympic...
Unit rate 7.SP 6th 7th 8th HS 5th Olympics 6.SP.B 6.RP.A HSN.Q.A South Korea metric English conversion conversion

Spiraling triples
Number Sense Geometry Art
Let students explore the patterns of perfect squares and Pythagorean Triples as they analyze our piece of art and decide why the resulting construction looks like spiraling squares. For a finale the...
Pythagorean Theorem 7.G 8.EE 7th 8th HS HSG 8.G.B HSF.BF 7.EE.B Pythagorean triples transformation reflection coloring HSG.SRT.C HSA.APR.C patterns finding equations

Hands of Support
Art Ratio and Proportion 3-act tasks Probability and Statistics
 Lorenzo Quinn, an Italian sculptor, created and temporarily installed this piece of art entitled "Support" in Venice.  Quinn used his own children's hands to design this piece.  His in...
proportion ratio MP1 6th 7th 8th HS 6.RP.A 7.RP.A 3-act task MP4 operations with fractions estimation
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