Playlist: 3rd grade

Broken Calculator: Multiplication Cross Product

Power – Blue Whale vs Krill

Sure, a Blue Whale is huge. But does a tiny krill have more power?

Struggle Makes Us Stronger

How the lotus can teach your young students about resiliency.

Two Animals Switch Biomes

What if a capybara and a kangaroo rat switched homes? Would their adaptations be helpful at all?

Not Like The Others: Flowers

Four flowers. One doesn’t belong. But which one? That depends on your argument.

Coral Reef – Mixed Up Paragraph

Can you use the context clues to get these sentences about the coral reef back into the correct order?

An Olympic Sized Pool and Lots of Pasta (Episode 2)

How many pounds of pasta could you cook using the water in an olympic-sized pool?

An Olympic Sized Pool and 2 Liter Bottles (Episode 1)

How many 2 liter bottles could you fill up using the water in an olympic-sized pool?

Not Like The Others: Penguins

Four penguins. One doesn’t belong. But which one? That depends on your argument.

Trains – Mixed Up Paragraph

Can you use the context clues to get these sentences about trains back into the correct order?

Parabolic Curve Art

Create mathematical art with curves that, well, aren’t curvy.

Not Like The Others: US States

How is each of these states not like the others?

Word Ladder: Kid to Old (5-steps)

COLD to COOL. BAND to SING. Change one letter at a time — can you find the path?

Measurement: How Big is this Bathtub?

So, if I told you a bathtub holds 640 of water, which unit would make the most sense?

Not Like The Others: States of Matter

How is each of the states of matter not like the others?

SCAMPER: Scaffolding Creativity

Asking students to “think creatively” won’t get you far. They won’t know how to start, they’ll get stuck with simple ideas, or they’ll just go completely wild. SCAMPER is a tool for scaffolding the process of creativity.

Disneyland Parking Structure Math Project

Your students will use estimation strategies to figure out how many parking spots are there in the parking structure at Disneyland? And you bet I reveal the real answer!

Parentheses: How big of a change can they make!?

Two tiny parentheses. One expression. How big of a change can they make? Bigger than you think.

Not Like The Others: Creatures of the Tundra

Four tundra creatures. One doesn’t belong. But which one? That depends on your argument.

How Many Ways: Times Equals Minus

How many different ways can you make this math statement true using only the digits one through nine?

Fraction Ordering Tournament

Which set of fractions would be the trickiest to order from least to greatest? Let’s have a tournament!

Fractals: Koch Snowflake

You could keep zooming in on this snowflake forever!

Math Curiosity: Primes and Squares

Can any perfect square be written as the sum of two primes?

Creating A Classroom Motto

Starting with specific examples of fantastic classroom behavior, your class will end up with one sentence summing up their expectations. It’s a classroom motto!

Engineering: Build A Bridge

Using real bridges as their starting point, students will construct bridges out of straws and paperclips.