Ratios and Proportions

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

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

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

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

So should we make another movie in this series?

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.

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?

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

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

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