Math Project Lessons

How has the volume of laptops changed over time? You know you want to check out how huge those first versions were!

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

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.

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

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

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

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.