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  Find Someone: Use Math to Learn About Friends
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  Create a “Find Someone” list, with about 10 items, each containing a shape, number, or measurement. Can you find someone in the group with hair about 4 inches long? Someone wearing parallel lines?
  
Small Snails, Enormous Elephants
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  This activity (located on page 2 of PDF) introduces learners to the real size of animals using nonstandard measurement.
  
Stride Ruler
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  In this activity, learners use their feet to estimate distances. Learners calculate the distance of one step in centimeters by measuring 10 steps at a time to reduce measurement error.
  
Bianca's Body Math
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  In this Cyberchase activity, learners use math to explore how parts of the body are proportional.
  
Serving Sizes
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  In this nutrition and estimation activity (page 12 of PDF), learners estimate serving sizes of different foods and compare their estimates to serving size information provided on nutrition food labels
  Giant Museum: Create a Scale Model
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  In this activity, learners will predict the size of a giant scale model of a comb or other rectangular object, then make one. If you tripled the size of a dollar bill, could you sit on it?
  
A Towering Achievement
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  In this experience, learners use the internet to research physical details about Chihuly's Fireworks of Glass "Tower" and "Ceiling" and consider the decisions Chihuly had to make as he was planning th
  
Tired Weight
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  Yes, you can weigh your car by figuring out your wheel's tire pressure combined with the "tire's footprint." You'll need someone with a car, driver's license, and safety in mind.
  
Handy Measuring Ratio
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  In this activity, learners use their hands as tools for indirect measurement.