Numbers I

Central Tendencies

Good hands on projects = kids make hand prints then standing jump and running jump then crunch the #s

Style & style: High-Tech and Creative Pens  awesome pens, vote on your favorite, make a graph, central tendencies, % increase and decrease, markup discount, tax

Guinness World Records - Slideshows and Picture Stories - msnbc.com  good got to use this regularly

Box office mojo tons of stats and numbers for current movies

Paper helicopter   make your own helicopter quick and easy

People are awesome  break down, % of possible edited, % of each kind of activity, use data for graphing, central tendency, make an infographic with data

Did you know   good site

Dominoes starry night and much more  website

Fractions

Not enough mashed potatoes = yummy math (multiplying)

Awesome Pumpkin Pie = yummy math (multiplying)

Australia’s coral reef is ½ gone after 27 years

Free Technology for Teachers: North America's Biggest Things  great idea for scale % increase and decrease multiple shapes, fractions, volumes and others

Using Musical Notes to Teach Fractions | MindShift  really clever idea, need to maybe have the kids find a song and the notes and we can learn fractions  lyrics to live by

Box office mojo tons of stats and numbers for current movies

Stats of chocolate or it could be any candy    exponents and fractions, probability

Dominoes starry night and much more  website

Integers (Absolute Value)

Weather temps  integers and absolute value

Scale

Scale project statue of liberty shoe size 879

Bridges tri bridges maybe kids build, maybe scale

Free Technology for Teachers: North America's Biggest Things  great idea for scale % increase and decrease multiple shapes, fractions, volumes and others

Domino skyscraper  exponential growth

Escher studio ideas    waterfall

Scale monster buildings of items they sell

6 miles to any lake in mich, make it a challenge

Piano and Violin Building in China  maybe have the kids design something like it in google sketchup and then scale percentages price, rate, conversions, multiple shapes

Scientific Notation

Money making holiday movies

Cartoon voice people and their worth

How much rich people make per second like a running calculator

Fastest planet - radius and distance around their path