Hands On Math

  Building a Wheelchair Ramp Model With Slope 1/12   The scenario was the following.   Grandma wanted to come see her grand...

How Fast is a Toy Car Really Traveling? To examine this question and teach dimensional analysis we converted feet per second to...

Proportionality & Grasshoppers   What would it mean if students could jump proportionally as far grasshoppers? To find out...

How Matrices Can Help When You’re Dating On A Budget. The scenario was that each student was treating their partner out on a date f...

Estimating, Error Rates & Plotting     Take your class outside and designate a single starting point. From that point ...

Scatter plots move in two dimensions which allow students to see changes in slope as well as the relationship of the two data sets. The s...

      A good icebreaker to use when introducing Measures of Central Tendency (Mean, Median, Mode, etc) is to grab a handful of ...

An integer  greater than one  is called a  prime number  if its only positive divisors (factors) are one and itself. Here is a char...

The eBay Experiment (Math & Business) This is the perfect project for the educator who is familiar with selling on eBay! Those...

Commutative, Associative and Distributive Math definitions rank up there with fractions as some of the most dreaded material for student...

No need for elaborate drill and kill percentage worksheets. One good problem is worth 10 worksheets. The goal is for your students to be a...

It's very neat to see how evolution discards waste. Here we have constraints on resources forcing bees to to create the  "maxim...

Scaling Models With Sabertooth Tiger Teeth. As many of you know I homeschool my two sons (nothing like doing math in y...

I have a love/hate relationship with riddles. I love them when I can solve them quickly, hate them when they keep me up at night for ...

Our students often never understand how they misplaced a negative symbol or added instead of subtracting. They often think of this is a par...

A question occurred to me today. As normal, I need my afternoon coffee. However, feeling excessively lazy, instead of maki...

A simple picture can go along way in helping your students solve an application problem. This is as true in pre-algebra as it is in calcul...

Bring in a nicely wound cord or garden hose (see below) Explain to your students that you want them to determine the length of the ...