Arizona Math Standard: MP.2

Use super cute fruit to introduce algebraic thinking to your young math students.

We’re looking at regular vs irregular polygons.

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

The North Pole hits -40°. The South Pole hits -60°. Calculate the averages, graph the data, and deliver your polar weather report.

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.

Your special friends sure have some unique gift needs!

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

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?

What if I told you that an elephant weighed a back-breaking 176,000? Could you figure out the unit I’m using? But… how many corgis would that be?

What if I told you a movie was a whopping 0.017 long? Could you figure out the unit I’m using? This lesson packs in strange measurements of time as well as tiny decimals.

So, if I told you a bathtub holds 640 of water, which unit would make the most sense?

What if I told you that I’m 341,640 old? Could you figure out what unit I’m using? Hint: it’s not years!

A triangle splits and splits and splits again. How many will there be in step 20?

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!

Using exponent patterns, can students predict what the 0th power will be?

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!

A lesson about lines, line segments, and rays that avoids dull memorization. Instead, we ponder this delightful question: Which is longer, a ray or a line? Then, kids consider what these different geometric concepts would think about each other.

Using patterns, students try to deduce where that area formula came from.

So should we make another movie in this series?

Is gas actually that expensive? What if we filled a car up with… orange juice?

Why does the sum of the first 5 odds also equal 5 squared?

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

In this cross-curricular investigation, students will look into an intriguing question: do donuts or salads have more sugar? They’ll grapple with misleading information, bias, and use their math skills to create a visual representation of sugar in popular foods.

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?

Can any perfect square be written as the sum of two primes?

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!

Let’s make some intentionally bad graphs to learn how to spot poorly made graphs.

Let’s create a parody ad attacking a surprisingly calorie-rich meal.

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.

What if you had an original iPod and sold it compared to if you had bought the equivalent amount of Apple stock and sold that?