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Curriculum Integration in Nutrition and Mathematics
Author(s) -
James Delores C.S.,
Adams Thomasenia Lott
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
journal of school health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.851
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 1746-1561
pISSN - 0022-4391
DOI - 10.1111/j.1746-1561.1998.tb03476.x
Subject(s) - curriculum , general partnership , multitude , mathematics education , face (sociological concept) , work (physics) , psychology , medical education , pedagogy , sociology , medicine , political science , social science , engineering , law , mechanical engineering
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.