Sample math task
Sample question #1
Sally just ate chicken nuggets, mashed potatoes/gravy, a wheat roll, baby carrots, and chocolate milk for lunch. She has gym class next and was wondering how long it would take her to burn off the calories from her lunch. Given that on average a 90 pound middle school student burns 0.05 calories/pound, how long would it take her to burn off the 535 calories she just consumed?
Sample question #2
How many minutes of exercise does it take to burn off the lunch menu items?
Let's begin by looking at some famous people and what they have to do to burn off their McDonald's lunch!
http://www.mathalicious.com/lessons/newtritional-info/teach
For now, go to Q4 once on the site. You may look around the site on your own later!
Either average some/all the calories burned per pound from the website, or you choose the exercise that you want in order to figure out how many minutes of that exercise it will take you to burn off your lunch. Here is the link to the school lunch menu/nutrition. Pick your lunch items and calculate the minutes of exercise it will take you to burn it off:-)