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Food: The Math Link ActivityFood: The Math Link Activity
Publisher
Baylor College
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Grade
K - 5th
Subjects
Math
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Duration
15 mins
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Year
2011
Activity

Food: The Math Link

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This Food: The Math Link activity also includes:
  • The Mysterious Marching Vegetables
  • The Reading Link
  • The Science of Food - Teacher's Guide
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Enrich your study of food science with with these math worksheets. They offer a variety of food-related word problems that are great practice for multiplying, identifying fractions, estimating length, and performing calculations with money. Includes characters from the children's story The Mysterious Marching Vegetables, making this a great resource for connecting lessons in math, science, and language arts. 

2198 Views 1691 Downloads
CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

addition, division, estimation length, fractions, money, multiplication, subtraction, word problems, math applications, real-world applications

Additional Tags

word problems, division, fractions, addition, subtraction, money, estimating length, multiplication, math

Pros

  • Provides meaningful contexts for applying a range of math skills
  • Accompanies the children's story The Mysterious Marching Vegetables, which is available online for free

Cons

  • Teachers must develop their own answer key

Common Core

1.NBT.B.3 2.OA.B.2 2.NBT.A.4 2.NBT.B.5 2.NBT.B.6 2.MD.A.3 3.OA.A.2 3.OA.A.3 3.OA.C.7 3.OA.D.8 3.NBT.A.2 3.NF.A.1 3.NF.A.3.a 3.NF.A.3.b 4.OA.A.2 4.OA.A.3 4.NBT.B.4 4.NBT.B.5 4.NF.A.1 4.NF.B.4.a 4.NF.B.4.c 5.NBT.B.7 5.NF.B.3 5.NF.B.6

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