Just follow this link to learn about the current Internet Math Hunt. All answers can be found on the Internet. Then challenge your class to submit their own math hunt. It's more complicated than it looks at first glance. This could be a fun tie-in with the Social Studies Rome unit.
Students play with partners and graph results.
This on-going activity reinforces addition and subtraction skills as students maintain a household budget and use the newspaper to shop for household items, insurance, food, car payment, house payment, entertainment, etc. A great exercise in money management, too. Step by step instructions are provided in this simple introductory lesson. This is an entire site devoted to pi mathematics. The home page leads you to a link to explore the history of pi, an application page with graphics, questions about planets and volume with links to the answers.