Explore African American quilts using friendly fractions. Pack your own covered wagon using the principles of volume and weight to decide what you will take. Travel the Underground Railroad using discrete math to find different routes. From the Boston Tea Party to current events, you'll see how math projects can enliven American History and how history can provide a meaningful contest for math! Students explore slices of American history in depth while working on intriguing, open-ended math projects. The projects emphasize problem solving, critical thinking, and working solutions in small groups. Students work with real numbers, real mathematical facts, and real historical details, analyzing them the way historians do.