Erase Food Waste: Teacher Resources
Erase Food Waste: Teacher Resources
Welcome to the teacher resources page for the Erase Food Waste challenge! Here you will find links for a variety of resources: the student-facing challenge materials, a teacher guide for the challenge, a slide deck for the challenge, and some tips on implementation models and recruiting judges.
Mathematical Standards
Number Sense and Computation
- Finding Key Percent Relationships 6.RP.A.3.C, 7.RP.A.3
- Use percent change to build a sliding price scale.
- Operate with percentages to apply the sliding price scale and demonstrate its benefits.
Algebra
- Representing and Manipulating Algebraic Expressions 6.EE.A.2.A, 7.EE.A.2, 7.EE.B.3
- Create and analyze an algebraic expression that represents the quality of food over time
- Create an algebraic expression to represent the amount of money made in a month, taking the age of the food item and percent off of the original price into consideration.
Statistics
- Random Sampling and Inferences 7.SP.A.2
- Analyze market research
- Create and conduct surveys
- Analyze data from surveys
Additional Resources
The resources in this section are the same for all challenges.