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Contig

Roll three dice and combine them using any mathematical operation. But be strategic to maximize your points!

Struggle Makes Us Stronger

How the lotus can teach your young students about resiliency.

Words Within Words: February

How many words can you find within February?

Grouping Shapes by Parallel and Perpendicular Sides

Which shapes go together based on parallel and perpendicular lines?

Letters With Symmetry

Let’s group letters by their symmetry, then create symmetrical words, and then symmetrical sentences!

Math Curiosity: Magic Triangles

Can you make each side of this triangle add up to 9 using the digits 1-6?

Cooking In Space

Watch astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti cook a meal in zero gravity on the International Space Station.

Parts of Speech Party: Introduction (Check)

How many ways can we use “check” in a paragraph? And can your students spot when it’s a verb, or a noun, or an adjective?

Comparing Fraction Strategies

For Teachers

Comparing fraction strategies? Let’s take it even further!

Not Like The Others: US National Parks

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

What’s the Pattern? Fraction Addition

Can your students figure out how to add fractions by looking for a pattern?

Fizz Buzz: A Counting and Divisibility Game

Ready for a tricky counting and divisibility game?

Microchess (Chess Variant)

What if we played chess on a board that’s only 4×5?

Greek and Latin Word Part Paths

How can we go from Biology to Immobile?

New Uses for a Paperclip

So what are some new ways to use a paperclip?

Notice, Wonder: Green Circles

A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!

A Lunar Survival Mission

A favorite of mine! This task is delightfully complex and ambiguous, forcing students to make choices without enough information and with no right answer. How will they survive on the moon for three days?

Cram

Try this a simple (but surprisingly strategic) grid-filling game!

An Escher-Style Tessellation Project

Create a piece of repeating art in the style of MC Escher!

Asynchrony (For Adults)

For Teachers

In some areas, a student may be shockingly advanced, while in others… surprisingly average. This is asynchrony in action.

What’s In My Brain: Trapezoids or Not?

Which are trapezoids and which are not?

Same Perimeter, Different Area For Rectangles

Can two rectangles have the same perimeter but… different areas!?

Math Curiosity: The Coloring Problem

No video gets me more email from students! How few colors can you use to color in any map so that no two, neighboring regions are the same color?

The Resiliency Tournament

Your students will set up a tournament to determine which person or character best demonstrated resiliency.

Deducing the Area of Triangles

Using patterns, students try to deduce where that area formula came from.

Building Creative Analogies

We’ll take two seemingly unrelated pieces of content (say volcanoes and the human body) and then build analogies to connect the two ideas. In the end, students can create a skit, comic, or story relating the two concepts.

A Donut Investigation

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.

A Caffeine Investigation – Part 1

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

Creating A Realistic Flower and Pollinator

Your students will create a new flower, designed to attract a specific pollinator.

Exploring Circumference With Famous Circles

Let’s find how the diameter and circumference of famous circles are related.

Greekymon

Rather than just memorizing word parts, students will use those word parts to create four possible products.

Students and Personality Types

For Teachers

How can our students be so different? And how can we help them to understand themselves and each other better.

Asynchrony: Developing At Different Rates (For Students)

For students! In some areas, a student may be shockingly advanced, while in others… surprisingly average. This is asynchrony in action.

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!

Teaching Empathy With Faberge Eggs

The story of the Fabergé Eggs is heartbreaking. It’s also the perfect way to build empathy in your classroom.

Greek and Latin Dinosaur Names

Let’s create a new dinosaur using Greek and Latin stems!

Intellectual Intensity

Do you know someone who becomes a bit overexcited by ideas?