infographics, scatterplot

Do Americans and Nutritionists Agree on What’s Healthy?

Where Americans and Nutritionists Disagree
courtesy of Chris Hunter (@ChrisHunter36)

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)

Type of Graph: scatterplot

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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

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