The Food Label


	In a game that combines basic math skills, common sense and trivia, parents learn more about the USDA food label. As they explore the amount of calories, proteins, carbohydrates and fats in different foods, the workshop shows parents how math is part of their daily diet.
	Workshop • Video introduces nutrition facts. • Groups play The Nutrient Game after video explanation. • Participants do "What's Missing" activity—exploring damaged food labels. • Discuss math issues. • Video wrap up and summary; take-home kits.
		Workshop Requirements TV and a VCR • To show the various video segments throughout the workshop. Participants • Parents and children middle school and up.
	Take-home messages You do math every day. In exploring nutrition issues, parents use computation and problem solving—two important math concepts. Computation and problem solving are taught in middle school. Parents in this workshop solve multi-step problems and use addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, which are still important parts of middle school math. Today's classrooms are different. Instead of doing pages and pages of practice in a workbook, children in today's classrooms learn math skills in engaging real-world settings. You can help your child with math. Parents can look for real-world opportunities to help their children practice math.

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