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Mathematical Gift Wrapping
Algebra Number Sense Geometry Holidays 3-act tasks
🎁🎁In this updated activity, students will use math to explore two methods of wrapping gifts, including the mathematical method demonstrated by S...
7th 8th 8th HS Christmas holiday geometry surface area nets using formulas Pythagorean Theorem 7.G.B.6 8.G.B HSG.MG.A.3 HSG.SRT.C MP4 MP3

How many baseballs are in this truck?
Algebra Geometry Sports Any time math
In 2017, Old Dominion Freight Line offered 2 free tickets to the next 3 World Series to the person who guesses closest to "How many baseballs are in this truck?". Alas, the contest ended on Au...
baseball MLB estimation Volume sphere 8.G.9 MP1 8th HS HSG-MG.A.1 HSG.MG.A.3 HSG.MG.A.2 rectangular prism HSG.GMD.A.3

Throwing Up
Algebra Geometry Science
 This year, Buffalo, New York, has had more than 100 inches of snow this winter. We imagine that the height of the tunnel to people's homes is getting pretty high. It's hard to shovel new snow wh...
parabolic motion estimation graph parabolas 8.F.5 HSA-REI 7th 8th HSA HSF HSA.CED.2 HSG.MG.3 weather winter snow

Do I have enough wrapping paper?
Algebra Number Sense Geometry Holidays 3-act tasks
 In this problem based activity students first guess and then try to calculate whether they will have enough paper to wrap this present without taping pieces of wrapping paper together.Consi...
estimation 6.G.1 7.G.6 surface area 6.G.4 nets 6th 7th 8th HS 7.G.B 6.G.A MP5 HSG.MG.A.3 7.EE.B 3-act task 6.EE.A measuring wrapping paper need Christmas Holidays

How many gumballs are there?
Number Sense Geometry Food Probability and Statistics
Gumball Machine Problem from Brian Marks on Vimeo This problem is a little puzzle to get your students thinking, estimating, and calculating. We've given you a pdf file w...
estimation Volume 8.G.9 HSG-MG.1 6th 7th 8th HS HSG.GMD.3 HSG.MG.2

That's a big tomato!
Algebra Number Sense Geometry Food Ratio and Proportion
These Aussi tomatoes (the tomato on the left of all of the tomatoes) are huge.   How much do you guess one weighs? Can you figure it out?
Data and Probability ratios 6.RP 7.RP 6th 7th 8th HS HSG HSG.GMD 8.G.C HSG.MG

Tiny vacuum with a huge reach
Algebra Number Sense Geometry 3-act tasks
From the vacuum description and advertisement in the PDF, how long do you think its cord must be? Thanks to Brian Shoemaker, Newton, MA teacher, for the idea and pictures.
MP.1 MP.3 MP.4 MP.2 6th 7th 8th HS 7.G.B 8.G.B HSM circle area HSG.MG HSG.C trigonometry angles

Point of view
Geometry Art
If you have a set of cubes for your classroom, this would make a great group hands-on project. Its an old puzzle but the activity deserves a revisit. Below are two straight-on images of my ...
8.G 6th 7th 8th HS 5th 4th HSG.CO.A 4.G.A HSG.MGA parallel perspective line of site

Huge diamond found in Canada
Number Sense Geometry Science Ratio and Proportion Probability and Statistics
552-carat diamond found in Diavik Mine, Northwest Territories, Canada Can you tell just how big this gem is?  Do you know how big a carat is? What would this look like on a ring on you...
6.RP.2 6.RP.3 7.RP.3 unit price 6th 7th 8th HS 5th HSG.MGA diamond mining size comparisons percent loss

Civil rights marches, how do you count a crowd?
Number Sense Geometry Social Studies Holidays
  On October 16, 1995, perhaps a million black men gathered for the Million Man March on Washington.  This was 32 years after Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his histo...
Data and Probability estimation reasoning Martin Luther King Jr. Civil Rights MLK MP.4 6th 7th 8th HS 5th 4th 7.G.B 6.G.A 7.RP.A HSM 4.MD.A HSG.MG.A.2 Million Man March crowd counting

Rescue of the Chilean miners - The 33
Geometry Science
On August 5, 2010, the San Jose copper-gold mine near Copiapó, Chile collapsed stranding 33 miners in a large cavern more than 2,000 feet below ground. A new movie has just been released about the inc...
Volume cylinder 8.G.9 surface area 7th 8th HS HSG-MG.A.1 HSG.MG.A.2 geometry

Parabolic Pee
Algebra Science
Mr. Mark's new little baby can make some amazingly tall streams.   Give your class a little chuckle as you introduce them to parabolic motion with this very short analysis of Mr. Mark's baby's...
diapers parabolic motion parabolas gravity 8.F.5 HSA-REI 8th HS HSA.CED.2 HSG.MG.3 distance quadratic
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