Ratios and Proportions

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

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?

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 should we make another movie in this series?

Do big countries always have the most medals? Which smaller countries rank surprisingly high in the Olympics?

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

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

Pi is mysterious and strange! Why not let students discover it on their own?

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

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