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