I love collecting links to articles with fun math applications. Here are three of my recent favorites.
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What if you lived in Vegas but worked in San Francisco?
Is it possible to save money by commuting to San Francisco from Las Vegas?
Math Project: Shrinking Airline Seats
What kind of math project could you build based on the shrinking dimensions of seats on the Boeing 777?
An Apple Stock Math Project
Entice your gifted mathematicians with real world data and an authentic problem such as: “Let’s say that instead of buying the original iPod, you spent the same amount of money on Apple stock. How much would that stock be worth now?”