Candy Bar Math Lesson

All foods sold in the U.S. must be labelled with their nutritional content.  These labels are called "Nutrition Facts", and I found a picture of a really crazy one online that I thought would be fun to share.  It's the label from a "Mega-Kat", which is a giant Kit-Kat candy bar.  It weighs 2 pounds!

(Check out the pictures of someone holding an even bigger Kit-Kat candy bar here.  It weighs 30 pounds!)

Time to do something useful with this information!  Let's use this Nutrition Facts label to help with learning math facts & have some fun.  What can you learn from this Nutrition Facts label?

• If you were going to split this candy bar among yourself and 4 of your friends, how much cholesterol would each of you be consuming?
• How many of these giant candy bars would you need to eat to get 80 grams of fiber?
• How much sodium is in half a serving?
• If there are 4 grams in 1 teaspoon of sugar, how many teaspoons of sugar are in this candy bar?
• If you ate 5 of these candy bars (and didn't get sick), how much vitamin C would you have eaten?  

Ok, homeschool math class is over.  Now we all know candy bars are not healthy, but let's look closer at these Nutrition Facts.  Notice that the 2 things this candy bar contains the most of are.....Fat and Sugar.

I'll never look at a Kit-Kat quite the same!