Curriculum Integration in Nutrition and Mathematics
Delores C.S. James, Thomasenia Lott Adams
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Published: Jan 1, 1998
DOI: 10.1111/j.1746-1561.1998.tb03476.x
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ABSTRACT: Today's school‐aged children face a multitude of health issues that affect their well‐being and academic performance. Partnerships have developed between health and education agencies to help American children succeed at math and science and to prepare them to make healthful, lifelong decisions. Curriculum integration provides a framework for children to apply knowledge from several disciplines and to use this knowledge to solve real‐life problems at work and at play. Goals for instruction focus on the needs not only of the individual but also of society. Nutrition science and mathematics form a natural partnership. Nutrition science incorporates numerous mathematical concepts and procedures such as sorting, classifying, statistics, probability, estimation, and rates and proportion. In preparation for participation in a global and technological society that will require citizens to be quantitative thinkers, educators must endeavor to assist all children in becoming healthy adults who are mathematically literate and competent.
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