Due to it being between testing and cultural activities, I found Numb3rs, the tv show, to use in my classroom. It is mathematically based and seems to have alot of good activities associated with it. I did a search on it and found a blog that actually looks at the mathematics and physics. It can be found at http://nuweb.neu.edu/math/cp/blog/ and has a large number of topics. There are all sorts of interesting comments about the series including further explanations, etc.
This website - http://www.weallusematheveryday.com/tools/waumed/activities_season3.htm has activities to accompany each episode for season three. There are other pages with activities for seasons one and two.
I showed the episode called Traffic from season 3 and then did the accompaning activities for the probability of licences plate numbers or birthday months and two activities dealing with the Pythagorean theorem. Although the activities said 15 to 20 mins, the activities took closer to 55 mins to do the basic part. I did like the lessons because they also contained the mathematical explanations and prep work in the teachers copy. What is nice is that TI and the NCTM are both supportive of this and have helped prepare the lesson plans to accompany this.
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