Ellen Ward

This assignment provides students with a real-life example of how integers are used. In this assignment, students record their food/drink intake and their exercise over two days. They then use that data to determine the numbers of calories they've consumed (+ number) and the calories they've burned (- number) and calculate how healthy they are. While the focus of this assignment is on positive and negative numbers, it can also be used to build up to unit price. My students really enjoyed findi