High school kids bust claims about Double Stuf Oreos

[UrbScotty]

If you ever thought high school math wasn't useful in real life, take a look at what the students in Dan Anderson's class discovered.

The upstate New York high school teacher tasked the students in his "Consumer Math" course in the spring with determining whether Nabisco's Double Stuf and Mega Stuf Oreos really are, indeed, double and mega stuffed.

"This class is for students struggling with math so I'm always looking for hands-on activities," Anderson, who teaches in Queensbury, N.Y., told ABCNews.com . "When the Mega Stuf Oreos came out, I decided to do it."

Anderson, 32, brought his class one package each of regular Oreos, Double Stuf and Mega Stuf. He then split his students into different groups, with some measuring the cookies' height and some their weight.

http://www.theindychannel.com/news/daily-extras/math-students-double-stuf-oreo-packaging-claims-dont-add-up

Between this and Subway's "footlong" claim, this isn't the only time a company's advertising claim has been busted. What's interesting about this is that a bunch of high school kids caught them.

[dballance]

1. KUDOs to the teacher for making learning interesting and fun.

Of course he made it fun at the expense of a corporation so he'll have to be let go now.

[Curmudgeoness]

2. Fun at the expense of a corporation

is the best fun!

[awoke_in_2003]

4. Math can be fun...

You just need the right teacher. A good math teacher can change the way you think.

[jeffrey_pdx]

6. Mr. Tarasawa

He was hated by some but loved by many. I heard he passed away a some years ago. I blame/thank him for getting my degree in math.

Fun fact about him: He'd challenge the biggest guy in class (usually a football player) to arm-wrestle (over whether the class had to take a quiz); he always won. Oh and BTW, he was an average sized Japanese gentleman.

[dballance]

7. I had awesome teachers for math

They made it fun and challenging. Of course, I also had my mechanical engineer father who was very encouraging when it came to math.

[immoderate]

3. I taught middle school math. Activities where students could "eat the data" were popular.

Raisins, m&m's and Necco Wafers helped students learn about probabilities and statistics. Yum!

--imm

[elleng]

5. My kids' first, very early math teacher did it this way,

said do it with food or money, so among the first 'exercises,' homework assignments was/is Halloween: Sorting and classifying stuff received at Trick or Treat!

[1monster]

8. Applied sciences and maths should be common core standards...

[marble falls]

9. Subway responded by saying the footlong was a "descriptive name for the sub sold in Subway.....

Restaurants and not intended to be a measurement of length. That's Footlong© as used in conjunction with Subway's 11" long sandwich, "Subways Footlong©".

[Sherman A1]

10. K&R

for Nabisco or Mondoleaz or whoever they are this week.

[Initech]

11. Didn't Drew Carey one time try to refute that a Quarter Pounder wasn't really a Quarter Pound?

[Jerry442]

12. Teaching kids that they can find the actual truth about things...

...using means easily within their reach is about one of the coolest things a person can do.