Steven Strogatz on Scientific Notation

Great Article: http://nyti.ms/1cWQ9CL

Nametags can be a great first day activity

http://purpleprontopups.wordpress.com/2013/08/07/day-one/

The Distance to Mars

Great for a lesson on scale and perhaps time, distance and speed (linear modeling):

http://www.distancetomars.com/

Great source for Scientific Notation measurements

This site has an extensive list of measurements in scientific notation.

Thought this might help: http://www.falstad.com/scale/

Raw = Great data tool

All I have to say here is wow: http://raw.densitydesign.org/

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.