Teacher Guide: Lesson 23.3

The Weekly Reader Connections feature on Kids' Place Houghton Mifflin Math provides your students with additional information about the topics that appear in the Curriculum Connection feature in their student books.

The Math Challenge titled “The Weight of Chocolate” consists of a table showing the average pounds of chocolate consumed by each person in 15 countries in 1998 and 2000.

Have students study the table and answer the questions that follow. The questions in this Math Challenge require students to compare chocolate consumption of the different countries and years listed in the table.