Follow-up, Assessments and Extensions

Here are some ideas for follow-up and extensions for this project:

1) Finish showing "Super Size Me" - Teachers should certainly show the last 15 minutes of video to show how eating fast food can affect one's health.

2) Writing Response - Teachers can ask students to write a paper or response to one of the following questions:

What did you learn from this project? Both in math and in your everyday life?

What are ways that this project helped you to learn about math in a new way? How could this project have been improved?

What would you order tonight if you were at McDonald's explain and guess the number of calories that you would eat.

3) Summative Assessments

Teachers may want to give students the following assessments:

Practice MCAS test with mean, median, mode, range and correlation questions.

Fast food restaurant with a category section like, salads, and ask students to answer questions about measures of central tendencies.