Use this hands-on activity for students to realize why the sum of the interior angles of any triangle is 180 degrees. They will remember this for years afterward!
This is an activity where students have to take calorie information of foods that are liked by "Joe the Football Player" and determine if he can eat them as part of his new diet. They must set up a fraction, convert the fraction to a decimal, convert the decimal to a percent, then determine if Joe can eat each food based on what percent of the calories are from fat. Students love this! It's much more fun when it relates to something that interests them. This could also double as a health lesson.