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Introduction People use math to work with food in all sorts of ways When your parents buy food they use math to figure out exactly how much it will cost You can use simple math to help your parents know how long the food in the refrigerator will keep fresh Simple math will also help you find out how much food you have eaten When your parents buy food they use math to find out how much the food will cost If these ears of corn are 50 cents each how much will five ears cost 4
On the other hand the math becomes very complex after you’ve eaten food When food enters your body it travels to the stomach to be digested or converted to energy Math can give you an idea of how much energy you can expect to get out of a particular food STEM in Action If you eat one slice of pizza and then have another slice how many slices of pizza have you eaten 1 1 2 Two slices of pizza And if there were eight slices of pizza to begin with how many slices are left 8 2 6 Six slices of pizza Stomach The stomach is where food is digested or broken down for use as fuel 5
