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New Pirates of the Caribbean (2017) - How profitable?
Algebra Ratio and Proportion Probability and Statistics
The fifth Pirates of the Caribbean movie opened on Friday, May 26th ,2017. Your students might be looking forward to seeing this movie and motivated to understand the investment expenses and pr...
mean patterns data analysis estimation 6.RP.3 6.SP.3 6th 7th HS MP5 HSM 7.EE.B.3

Fidget spinners - fad or lasting trend?
Current events Probability and Statistics
Do you recognize what these are? Are you noticing students with these gadgets? Is this a forever toy or just the newest thing? Can you tell by looking at trend charts of Google searches h...
6.SP MP.4 6th 7th 8th HS HSM interpreting charts 6.EE.C studying trends data analysis

What does 95% confidence in the poll results mean?
Algebra Number Sense Social Studies Probability and Statistics
There have been a lot of polls about who will win the Presidential election. I get so confused when polling results are reported.  What is a 95% confidence measure? What's the margin of ...
mean Data 6.SP.5 standard deviation 6.SP.2 6.SP.4 7.SP.2 7.SP.1 8th HS HSS-IC.B.4 HSS.IC.A.1 6.SP.1 HSS.ID.A.4 polling margin of error HSS.IC.B.3 sample stats data analysis

Free Flights?
Algebra Number Sense
This can't be right!  If my flight cost $200 and I stayed for 10 days it would be free.  Right?  You can kick off this activity by asking students to think about where ...
data analysis 7.EE.4 HSA-CED.A.2 MP3 MP8 MP.4 7th 8th HS HSA.CED.A.1 relationships equations costs patterns

What's with the plovers?
Algebra Number Sense Science Ratio and Proportion Probability and Statistics
Cute little birds.  Piping plovers are nesting on beaches along the Atlantic coast. Consequently beaches are often roped-off or closed to protect their nests and chicks. Is this conservatio...
Scatter Plot line of best fit data analysis average 7th 8th HS 7.RP.A 8.SP.A HSS.ID.B 7.EE.B 8.EE.C HSA.CED.A

Shamrock Shake
Number Sense Science Food Holidays
For Saint Patrick's Day add a little nutrition math to your celebration.  In this post we look at calories, carbohydrates, sugars, fats, and proteins to decide what would be left for our day's ...
percent data analysis estimation food nutrition 6.RP 6.SP 7.SP 6th 7th 5th St. Patrick's Day

Scoring Olympic ski jumping
Number Sense Geometry Sports
The scoring rubric for each of the Olympic events is intended to eliminate the possibility of scoring bias from the judges.  Let your students learn more about the scoring of one event and deci...
Data and Probability 5.NBT 6.NS 7.NS 6.EE 7.EE 5.OA HSA-CED 6th 7th 8th HS 5th Olympics ski jumping scoring data analysis integer

Lifespan of a meme, the Harlem Shake
Algebra Number Sense Social Studies Probability and Statistics
Five friends who skateboard and video tape made up a strange dance one afternoon and filmed it on February 2nd (look it up on youtube!).  Now the whole world knows them and their da...
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My Facebook IPO investment
Number Sense Social Studies
What is an IPO?  Are they always good investments? Students analyze charts and data, learn a little about investing, calculate percent loss (unfortunately), and make some Facebook stock proj...
Data and Probability percent data analysis Business graph 7.RP 6.SP 7.SP 8.SP 6th 7th 8th HS S-ID

The tallest structure made of Legos
Number Sense Social Studies Art Ratio and Proportion 3-act tasks Probability and Statistics
Act One: The world record for the tallest structure made of Legos was set in Seoul, South Korea.  Check out this video on youtube! What other questions do you have? Act T...
Data and Probability problem solving Unit rate data analysis estimation average 6.RP.3 7.NS.3 5.NBT.5 4.OA.4 6.NS.2 6th 7th 5th 4th 3-act task

Linsanity
Algebra Number Sense Sports Ratio and Proportion
Jeremy Lin is the New York Knicks most startling player.  His story is exciting in that he graduated from Harvard in 2010 and was not immediately drafted into the NBA.  At first he was...
Data and Probability proportion ratio percent Unit rate sports 6.RP 7.RP 7.SP 6th 7th data analysis
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