Performance

Task: Food Baskets

**NOTE: This is a reprinted version of an online tool. In order to achieve optimal

performance, students SHOULD complete this task online by following the following
instructions:
1. Go to http://californiatac.org/practice-and-training/index.html.
2. Select Student Interface Practice and Training Tests.
3. Click Sign In
4. Select Grade 7 and click yes.
5. Select Start G7 Math Performance Task
6. Click through to begin the test.

1. You are a volunteer at International Food Assistance. The organization delivers
food baskets to help people around the world. The requirements for each food
basket are shown below.

Here are the requirements for each food basket:
Contains grains such as rice, wheat or oatmeal
Contains legumes such as kidney beans, nuts, or lentils
Contains exactly 35 grams (g) of oil for cooking
Contains exactly 50 grams (g) of Super Cereal
Has a minimum of 2,100 total calories
At least 8% of the total calories come from protein
At least 10% of the total calories come from fat
The cost of each basket cannot exceed $0.75

Here are the contents and quantities of a Sample Food Basket:
Food
Quantity Calories
Protein
Fat
Cost per
(1g = 4
(1 g = 9
kilogram
calories)
calories)
Rice
800g
920
9g
2g
$0.58
Lentils
240g
812
34g
2g
$0.90
Oil
35g
315
0g
35g
$1.20
Super
50g
200
10g
5g
$0.12
Cereal

This assessment has four questions about planning food baskets. You will examine
factors such as nutrition and food prices. The final question requires you to design a
food basket. Read and answer each question.

2. Create an expression to calculate the number of calories from fat in the sample
food basket.

2 + 2 + 35 + 5 9

or an equivalent expression would be a 1 point answer. Anything not equivalent
would be 0 points.


3. Create an expression to calculate the percent of total calories from protein in the
sample food basket.

9 + 34 + 10 4
100

920 + 812 + 315 + 200

or an equivalent expression would be a 1 point answer. Anything not equivalent
would be 0 points.



4. Explain how the Sample food basket does or does not meet all of the requirements
for a food basket.

Sample response:
This sample food basket DOES meet the requirement for the food basket. It contains
grains, legumes, exactly 35 grams of oil and 50 grams of super cereal.

It has 2,247 calories, which exceeds the 2,100 calorie minimum. Out of the total
2,247 calories, 212 come from protein. (I calculated this by doing the following:
9 + 34 + 0 + 10 4). This is 9.4% of total calories, and exceeds the 8% minimum
as stated in the requirements. There are 396 calories from fat. I calculated this by
adding the grams of fat in each item and then multiplying the total by 9 since there
are 9 calories in each gram of fat. 396 calories represents 17.6% of the total calories,
which more than exceeds the 10% requirement.

What about price? We need to keep the price under $0.75 for the entire basket.
1kg of rice is $0.58, and so 800g would be $0.47.
1kg of lentils is $0.90, and so 240g would be $0.22
1kg of oil is $1.20, and 35g would cost $0.04
1kg of super cereal is $0.12 and 50g is $0.01, which would total $0.74, and this fits in
the parameters as outlined by the bulleted list of requirements.

5. Bad weather is damaging rice crops so you need to use wheat or oatmeal as the
grain requirement in the food baskets. Enter different quantities in the table
Nutritional Value and Cost of Wheat and Oatmeal (available online) to explore
the changes in calories, protein, fat, and cost of replacing rice with wheat or oatmeal.

PART A. Determine the contents of a new basket that uses wheat or oatmeal instead
of rice and meets all of the requirements. Enter your information in all six blank
cells in the table.

Food
Quantity Calories
Protein
Fat
Cost per
(1g = 4
(1 g = 9
kilogram
calories)
calories)






Lentils
240g
812
34g
2g
$0.90
Oil
35g
315
0g
35g
$1.20
Super
50g
200
10g
5g
$0.12
Cereal

Answers will vary, but if you chose wheat, you would select between 100-600grams,
and if you chose oatmeal, 100-400grams would lead you to the correct answers.



PART B. Explain how your new basket meets all the requirements for a food basket.

Again, answers will vary, but will explain WHY the basket meets the requirements
by calculating the percent of calories that come from fat and protein, and total
number of calories, and the total cost. Format could be similar to the answer to
question #4 above.