Project-Based Rigor

Students will create a cereal box that offers accurate, but misleading data. They will look at: - Including/excluding certain nutrition facts - Adjusting serving size to help their case - Compare it to other brands with misleading graphs - Find studies about certain ingredients This is a fun project to do during a data unit that gets them practicing how to use graphs, statistics, and makes it fun. This should take roughly 2 hours of class time. This includes instructions, simple rubric, and cer

The first few days after summer vacation can hectic with teachers trying to prepare the first unit and students wanting to talk about their summer. This activity covers both. It also helps students get back into mathematical thinking by having them find ratios, percents, and basic surface area and volume. In this activity, students: - List the activities they did and estimate what percent of their summer they took up. - Create a circle graph (with helpful hints on dividing circles into percents