A Donut Investigation

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Summary

In this cross-curricular investigation, students will look into an intriguing question: do donuts or salads have more sugar? They’ll grapple with misleading information, bias, and use their math skills to create a visual representation of sugar in popular foods.

  1. Students rank how much they trust the donut image.
  2. Then they check the math, using ratios to determine if the original image is accurate.
  3. They choose three new food items to compare, looking up the sugar content, then creating donut ratios for each.
  4. Finally, they redo the original image, choosing a new nutrient to use as the comparison.
  5. Students will update their original belief of how much they trust the image.

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