Do Americans and Nutritionists Agree on What’s Healthy?

Where Americans and Nutritionists Disagree
original graph by Kevin Quealy and Margot Sanger-Katz/NY Times, slow reveal by Chris Hunter and Jenna Laib

Chris Hunter wrote about using this graph with teachers in a professional learning session on his blog, “Reflections in the Why.” (September 27, 2017)

(Slide deck includes notes and questions to elicit discourse. The original graph has been edited to remove wine and beer for usage in a K-12 setting.

Type of Graph: scatterplot

Source: New York Times’ “What’s Going On In This Graph?” (July 5, 2016)

Potential Math Content: scatterplot, bivariate data, positioning data, examining trends, shape of data, line of best fit

Potential Content Connections: health, food, nutrition