“I live and die by your website!” ~ a coordinator in Washington
Larger math tasks that go across content areas.
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.
You’ve got 60 spaces on a grid to create an amusement park, a house, a farm, or whatever you’d like. Divide it into seven pieces, order it by size, combine into two halves, and more in this fraction project.
Design and furnish hotel rooms on a budget. Real math, real constraints, real decisions. Then pitch your hotel to investors.
Let’s make some intentionally bad graphs to learn how to spot poorly made graphs.
Would you save money if you lived in Las Vegas and commuted every day to San Francisco?
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.
So… just how much caffeine can you have before you end up in the ER?
Which country has a great balance between their summer and winter Olympic medals?
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?
How have the ages of three countries’ populations changed from 1950 to 2020? And what problems might that create?
The North Pole hits -40°. The South Pole hits -60°. Calculate the averages, graph the data, and deliver your polar weather report.
What do people know about the amount of caffeine in common beverages?
Caffeine is everywhere. But what are the ads really saying? Analyze the claims, then create your own public service announcement.
