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The Antigravity Machine

Ask students what they think an "antigravity machine" would do ("something that helps you work against gravity"). Tell them that you are going to show them an antigravity machine for the day’s activity.

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The Best Throw

At what angle should you throw a ball for it to travel the greatest distance?

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Candy Graphs

Figuring out how many pieces of candy are in a large jar calls for some tasty data collection and analysis.

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Critically Acclaimed Desserts

Chef Von Frugel had a list of the favorite desserts of New York’s five biggest food critics. But he lost the list. Can you help him figure out which critic prefers which dessert?

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Digital Statistics

Measuring their own hands gives students an opportunity to flex their knowledge of statistics.

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The Doghouse

Planning the construction of a doghouse requires lots of math skills.

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Ferret Figures

50 ferrets (25 males, 25 females) are re-introduced into the wild, in a region of Colorado, one year in February. What would you need to know in order to make a good guess as to whether or not that population of ferrets will increase or decrease?

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Heads or Tails

A probability experiment that demonstrates what it really means to say that a tossed coin will come up heads one-half of the time.

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Make a Box

Students must make a box with a given volume.

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Monkey Business

You and a partner have decided to start a business, which provides trained chimpanzees to movie producers.

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My Favorite Pie

Eddie’s friend Leon owns a restaurant. Leon wants to add pie to his lunch and dinner menus, so he asked some of his customers to tell him their favorite kind of pie.

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Peas in a Pod

Is there a relationship between the length of a pea pod and the number of peas it contains?

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Proof of the Pudding

Could you guys come up with a way to really test whether or not our food tastes better to people?

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Timber Cruise

Using a sample of tree heights and diameters, this lesson gets students to see how foresters use problem solving to get an accurate estimate of the total volume of wood in a forest.

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Tip Toss

What are the mathematics behind this type of carnival game?

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Water Fences

Could you devise an experiment that measures the effect that wind has on evaporation? Ideally you would end up with a graph that shows how increased wind velocity leads to more water loss in a given period of time.

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Weather Patterns

Graph temperatures on a sheet of graph paper to find a pattern.

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Weighing the Evidence

How many pennies are in a mystery roll? Finding the answer involves variables.

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