Students will produce a multi-line graph, calculate averages, and calculate ranges using positive and negative temperatures.
Students will double a single dollar once per day and discover how long it takes to reach $1 million. Along the way, they'll move from repeated multiplication to using exponents.
In this video, students investigate a strange image that asks which has more sugar: a donut or a health drink? What about a salad? Using math and language arts skills, they'll determine if this image shows a complete picture or is misleading.
In this final part of the caffeine investigation, students will analyze advertisements, and then create a public service announcement.
Students, now armed with data about five caffeinated beverages, will survey a set of peers and/or adults to uncover misconceptions about caffeine.
This is the first of a three part interdisciplinary math project. Students will be investigating caffeinated beverages, dangers of caffeine, and how advertising affects our perceptions.
We'll explore money and test scores as we determine which is more useful: mean or median?
Students will purchase a large item on a credit card, and calculate the cost of interest if they only make the minimum payments.
Use Google Earth to capture authentic data to answer an intriguing question.
Students will use a restaurant's nutrition data to create a parody ad attacking a calorie-rich meal.
In this math project, students will design and furnish suites and rooms in a hotel. Then they will use their talents to sell their hotel in a presentation.
Here's a project for 3rd or 4th graders who have mastered adding and simplifying fractions. Students are given a plot of land to break up into seven unequal pieces.
What if we made the study of quadrilaterals, triangles, or three-dimensional figures an exploration incorporating creativity, discussion, and student-led thinking?
Teach students to calculate the true popularity of a ride by analyzing the wait time, the number of passengers per ride, and the time in between launches.
An intriguing math project investigating how much money we could make by selling an original iPod versus selling the equivalent amount of stocks.
How many fully loaded tram trips will it take to transport a full parking structure to Disneyland?
