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  1. Algebra Magic -- Create Your Own Number Puzzles (Menon, Ramakrishnan)
  2. Automatic Windshield Wipers (Manning, Evan)
  3. Can an Astronaut on Mars distinguish the Earth from its Moon? (Stern, David)
  4. Coastal Threat: A Story in Unit Conversions (Stevermer, Amy)
  5. Color and Spectrum (Edberg, Stephen)
  6. Contouring and Topo Maps (Remer, Lorraine)
  7. Corrupted Politicians (Van Hecke, Tanja)
  8. Could a World of Swimmers Raise Sea Level? (Pasternack, Gregory)
  9. Cross Section and Slope (Remer, Lorraine)
  10. Determining the Altitude of Iridium Flares (Foster, James)
  11. Dollar$ or Cent$? (Vogel, Jackie)
  12. Dr. Smith vs. The Lawyer (Ruby, Joseph)
  13. Dream Job (Salmons, Phyllis)
  14. Earth Turns? Prove It! (Edberg, Stephen)
  15. Geometric Addition + Logartihms = Geometric Multiplication (Ostler, Elliott )
  16. Geometry to the Rescue (Chambers, Lin)
  17. Grandpa's Social Security (Jones, Alan)
  18. How Far Can You See? (Kahn, Ralph)
  19. How Many Days Are in a Year? (Manning, Evan)
  20. How Now, Pythagoras? (Chambers, Lin)
  21. How thick is the Earth's atmosphere? (Ruzek, Martin)
  22. Hypothermia in the Little House (Remer, Lorraine)
  23. Ice Sheets and Sea Level Rise (Parkinson, Claire)
  24. Isoperimetric Geometry (Bogaert, Jan)
  25. Just what is a logarithm, anyway? (Aaron, Kim)
  26. Launch Speed (Gateau, Katherine)
  27. Learning from Slide Rules (Cohen, Martin)
  28. Learning to Think Globally (Frolking, Steve)
  29. Length of the Day (Edberg, Stephen)
  30. Logarithms: Taking the Curve Out (Chambers, Lin)
  31. Making Months (Manning, Evan)
  32. Matching Birthdays (Salmons, Phyllis)
  33. Metric Wins! (Reid, Joseph)
  34. Mixing & Stirring (Remer, Lorraine)
  35. Modeling the motions of the Earth, Sun and Moon (Simonelli, Glenn)
  36. Modulus in the Real World (Manning, Evan)
  37. Now You See It, Now You Don't (Moren, Charles)
  38. Particle Man and the Photon (Remer, Lorraine)
  39. Pilots, Airplanes and the Tangent of Three (3) Degrees (Moren, Charles)
  40. Preventing Hypothermia (Remer, Lorraine)
  41. Probability and Traffic Signals (Ostler, Elliott )
  42. Right Place, Wrong Time (Spiegel, Murray)
  43. Rotational Motion and Rocket Launches (Rao, Shanti)
  44. Sand or Rock? Finding Out from 1,000 km (Edberg, Stephen)
  45. Scavenger Hunt: Simulating Natural Selection (Narguizian, Paul)
  46. Seeing Interference Fringes (Edberg, Stephen)
  47. Seeing Interference Fringes with a Telescope (Edberg, Stephen)
  48. Snowmelt and Floods (Foster, James)
  49. Spoon Mirror (Kahn, Ralph)
  50. Square Root of 2 (Menon, Ramakrishnan)
  51. Square Roots Using a Carpenter's Square (Broome, Paul)
  52. Teaching Atomic Structure Using Cooperative Learning (Wawers, Kathleen)
  53. Teaching Radicals in Less Than Five Minutes (Ratheal, Juli)
  54. The Cause of Earth’s Seasons (Simonelli, Glenn)
  55. The Cause of the Phases of the Moon (Simonelli, Glenn)
  56. The Fall of the Ruler (Spiegel, Murray)
  57. The Mathematical Implications of Lying (Simonelli, Glenn)
  58. The Moon Orbits the Sun?!?! (Edberg, Stephen)
  59. The Rubber Band Problem (Simonelli, Glenn)
  60. The Shadow of the Dog (Kahn, Ralph)
  61. There's Air in There! (Remer, Lorraine)
  62. Two Answers are Better than One (Frolking, Steve)
  63. Volcanic Clouds (Rodriguez, Lizzette)
  64. Volcanoes and Urban Planning (Moxey, Lucas)
  65. Water Bottles, Root Beer, and Air (White, Loren)
  66. What is Wind Chill? (Kiefer, Peter)
  67. What the Doppler Effect Tells Us About Distant Stars & Planets (Edberg, Stephen)
  68. When a Ruler Is Too Short (Edberg, Stephen)
  69. Who Hits Harder: The Nordic Skier or Aerial Jumper? (Wylie, Donald)
  70. Why Don't Clouds Fall out of the Sky? (Cantrell II, Will)
  71. Why is Summer Hot? (Edberg, Stephen)

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