Activity Introduction
In this lesson, students practise converting numbers into percentages, and adding percentages together.
Students learn about their recommended daily intake of sugar, and practise adding different foods together to reach 100% of their daily intake. As the lesson proceeds, the questions increase in difficulty, culminating in a small research project where students find their own products, convert the sugar amount into a percentage, and then carry out basic percentage addition, thereby getting a sense of proportion around the recommended daily sugar intake.
- Students know how to find percentages
- Students can confidently navigate a Nutrition Information Panel
- Students understand the link between average quantity per serving and average quantity per 100g.
- Topic: Consumption.
- This lesson is part of the wider unit of work SugarByHalf – Math – Years 5-6.
- Time required: 60 mins.
- Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium – facilitate class discussion and activities.
- Keywords: sugar, sugar content, health, serving size, percentages, recommended daily intake, Nutrition Information Panel, SugarByHalf, Australian Dental Association.
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To view our NZ Curriculum alignment click here.
Cool Australia’s curriculum team continually reviews and refines our resources to be in line with changes to the Australian and New Zealand Curriculums.
- Calculator
- Computer for research
- Paper or workbook for writing down working.
These lessons were developed in partnership with SugarByHalf and the Australian Dental Association.
