Arizona Math Standard: MP.1

Roll three dice and combine them using any mathematical operation. But be strategic to maximize your points!

We’re looking at regular vs irregular polygons.

How can you cross each bridge in this city exactly once?

Can you make each side of this triangle add up to 9 using the digits 1-6?

How many times could you fill up a jet plane using the fuel that would fit in an olympic-sized pool?

How many pounds of pasta could you cook using the water in an olympic-sized pool?

How many 2 liter bottles could you fill up using the water in an olympic-sized pool?

Give kids a taste of a sequence, let them build an understanding, and then see how far their predictions can take them.

Give kids a taste of a sequence, let them build an understanding, and then see how far their predictions can take them.

Give kids a taste of a sequence, let them build an understanding, and then see how far their predictions can take them.

Give kids a taste of a sequence, let them build an understanding, and then see how far their predictions can take them.

Give kids a taste of a sequence, let them build an understanding, and then see how far their predictions can take them.

Give kids a taste of a sequence, let them build an understanding, and then see how far their predictions can take them.

How have the ages of three countries’ populations changed from 1950 to 2020? And what problems might that create?

Which country has a great balance between their summer and winter Olympic medals?

Give kids a taste of a sequence, let them build an understanding, and then see how far their predictions can take them.

Give kids a taste of a sequence, let them build an understanding, and then see how far their predictions can take them.

Give kids a taste of a sequence, let them build an understanding, and then see how far their predictions can take them.

These flowers sure are getting bigger faster! How large will they be in step 10? What about step 50?

In 1932, a leading authority on rattlesnakes, Laurence Klauber, discovered a startling pattern within a triangle of primes.

What if we make a huge spiral of numbers and then highlight only the primes? Well, a bunch of weird patterns show up!

Your students will use estimation strategies to figure out how many parking spots are there in the parking structure at Disneyland? And you bet I reveal the real answer!

No video gets me more email from students! How few colors can you use to color in any map so that no two, neighboring regions are the same color?

Why are there 12 months? Why don’t weeks fit into months evenly? Why don’t weeks fit into the year evenly? What’s going on with the calendar!

Would you save money if you lived in Las Vegas and commuted every day to San Francisco?

So, can you write every odd (greater than 3) as the sum of three primes?

Caffeine is everywhere. But what are the ads really saying? Analyze the claims, then create your own public service announcement.

So… just how much caffeine can you have before you end up in the ER?

When will mean and median give us different results?

It seems like there’s always a prime number between two perfect squares… but is this always the case!?

Prime numbers are unpredictable! How can we possibly find them all? An Ancient Greek mathematician found one way!

Let’s buy something expensive with a credit card and then make only the minumum payments!

Using this one weird trick, it seems that you can turn any number into a palindrome!

The Collatz Conjecture: start with any number and get to 1 using just two rules. It seems to always work…

Design and furnish hotel rooms on a budget. Real math, real constraints, real decisions. Then pitch your hotel to investors.