In this interactive map, learn how life expectancy, obesity, hypertension, and physical activity rates have changed dramatically throughout the United States over the last three decades. The accompanying classroom activity supports mathematical understanding by having students analyze and work with statistical information to compare life expectancy rates for males and females by regions of the country.

Concepts

life expectancy, sociology

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Additional Tags

life expectancy: finding ratio relationships, pbs learningmedia, pbs learningmedia: the lowdown: life expectancy: finding ratio relationships, the lowdown: life expectancy: finding ratio relationships, mortality rates

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
• The intended use for this resource is Instructional|practice