Water Facts

Here are stunning water facts that can be integrated into many math units. I will use them for percents, ratios, scientific notation and part of my divergent homework series:

http://water.org/water-crisis/water-facts/water/

Deconstructing the top 1%

How is the wealth of the top 1% distributed by occupation? Find out with the clever interactive graph:

http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/newsgraphics/2012/0115-one-percent-occupations/index.html?ref=business

This is another go to for my scientific notation unit.

What percent are you?

In the United States, it is interesting to see where you stand based on your income. Here is a great interactive graphic to help: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/01/15/business/one-percent-map.html

I see it as a resource for my scientific notation unit.