Average Wingspans of the World’s 12 Largest Butterflies Species
Tag: measurement
How Far Migrating Animals Can Travel in One Day
How Far Migrating Animals Can Travel in One Daygraph by Steve Jenkins, slow reveal by Jenna Laib (Slide deck - standard units/miles includes notes and questions to elicit discourse)(Slide deck - metric units/kilometers includes notes and questions to elicit discourse) Type of Graph: bar graph Visualization Source: Steve Jenkins, "One Day: By The Numbers." Clarion… Continue reading How Far Migrating Animals Can Travel in One Day
Chocolate Consumption per Capita (2022, selected countries) — elementary and middle school versions
New #SlowRevealGraph (Not) Everyone Loves Chocolate Looking at the estimated chocolate consumption per capita, and how it compares to the revenue per capita and the total population. Elementary version with weights in pounds encourages fractional reasoning. Elementary version with weights in kilograms encourages reasoning about decimals and proportions. Middle school version uses metric measurement and also includes additional data about ratios and proportions.
Carnival Rides and Trigonometric Functions
Which carnival ride is this function modeling? One of my favorite recent submissions! This graph includes a student handout with follow-up questions and graphing opportunities.
The Impact of Innovation: The Rise of the Smartphone, the Fall of the Digital Camera
How did the innovation of the smartphone impact the camera industry?
Growth of a T. Rex
How fast did T. Rexes grow? How does knowing this impact our understanding of dinosaur diets and lives?
The Arctic Ice Cover is Receding
The Arctic sea ice cover grows and shrinks over the course of the year, but it's typically at its greatest coverage during the month of March. How does this look from year to year? How can data encourage us to take action?
History of Calculating π: Number of Accurate Digits
It's almost π day (3/14 in the US)! Some people like to try to memorize π. Is it possible for them to memorize all the known digits? How many digits ARE known, and how has our knowledge of π changed over time?
The Length of the Skating Season on the Rideau Canal Skateway (Ottawa)
Every year, Ottawa's Rideau Canal Skateway (a UNESCO world heritage site) is host the world's longest skateway! But not in 2023. How unusual is this? How long have other seasons been? (slow reveal by @scottwestwell)
Heartbeats per Minute and Body Weight of Different Species
What do you notice about the relationship between the size of an animal the number of heartbeats it has per minute?
Google Trends: When do people want to know how many tablespoons are in a cup?
When do people google the conversion from tablespoons to cups? What trends do you notice? What does this mean about what Americans are doing? Click to access the slide deck, and learn more about math & content connections.
Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade: Balloon length
How long are the parades in Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade? Click to access the slide deck, and learn more about math & content connections.
Materials Recycled in Pounds per Person per Day (US)
How much have Americans recycled over time? How do we measure that? Click to access the slide deck, and learn more about math & content connections.
Animals on the Move: Migration
Click to access the slide deck, and learn more about math & content connections.
Environmental Impact of the Food You Waste
How much Co2 is released into the atmosphere from the production of different foods?
Horns
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