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All AboutMath Projects

A menu of math projects to apply students’ mathematical understanding and quickly cross disciplines.

How Many Kids Could Cram onto the Playground?

If your students can find the area of a square then, armed with Google Earth, they can also figure out how many students you could pack into your school’s playground.

Calculating the Volume of Laptops

So once your students can calculate volume… what do you have them do next? In this math project, kids will look up historic laptops, calculate their volumes, and note how technology has changed over time.

How much to fill your car up with Clam Chowder?

Sure gasoline seems expensive. Until you try to fill your car up with printer ink.

Calendars: A Bonanza of Factoring Problems

The calendar is a source of fantastic factoring problems with many social studies add-ons. Why 12 months? Why 30 (or 31 or 28) days? Why are weeks 7 days long? Why don’t they fit into the months (or the year!)? Why did we do this to ourselves and have any people done better?

Delightful Math Data

I love collecting links to articles with fun math applications. Here are three of my recent favorites.

Math Data: Living In Vegas, Working In San Francisco

Is it cheaper to live in Vegas and commute to work in San Francisco? This article says so, and it’s a perfect base for a meaningful math project.

Are you using Wolfram Alpha for math data?

Intriguing, authentic data can make or break a math project. I keep a list of bookmarks to surprising data I’ve found around the web. But what if you know what data you want to find? Sure, you could Google it, but an even better source is Wolfram Alpha, especially if you’d like to work with […]