www.nosmokes.com.au Smoking Calculator Information for teachers Study Guide The Smoking Calculator is an online tool which illustrates the real cost of cigarettes; both financially and to your health. An internet connection is required to use this tool. It can be used in combination with The Facts section of the No Smokes website or resource DVD (see The Facts Study Guide for supporting material), or on its own. It s particularly good as a maths tool. The main resource: Smoking Calculator Supporting resources: Tobacco Flip Chart The Facts Study Guide Tobacco Addiction Story animation Copyright 2012 Menzies 1School of Health Research
How the Study Guide links to the Curriculum Study Guide Overview of Subject Areas Summary of Learning Activities Links to the Australian Curriculum V.3.0 Links to the Northern Territory Curriculum Framework (NTCF) 2009 Smoking Calculator Study Guide English and Mathematics Pre-activity discussion questions, using the calculator questions and recording findings, comprehension questions, class discussion questions, create graphs, create posters/ visual displays, interview smokers (recording and presenting findings,) write own scenarios and utilise calculator for results, investigate cost of smoking in your community. English (Literacy) Sub-strand: Interpreting, analysing, evaluating Focus of thread within the sub-strand: Reading processes and comprehension strategies Sub-strand: Creating texts Focus of thread within the sub-strand: Creating texts, editing, handwriting, use of software Sub-strand: Interacting with others Focus of thread within the sub-strand: Listening and speaking interactions, oral presentations Yrs 7-10 Mathematics Number and Algebra: Number and place value Yr 6: Select and apply efficient mental and written strategies and appropriate digital technologies to solve number problems involving all four operations with whole numbers. Number and Algebra: Real numbers Yr 7: Solve problems involving addition and subtraction of fractions, including those with unrelated denominators. Multiply and divide fractions and decimals using efficient written strategies and digital technologies. Statistics and probability: Data representation and interpretation Yr 4: Construct suitable data displays with and without the use of digital technologies, from given or collected data. Yr 5: Construct displays, including column graphs, dot plots and tables appropriate for data type, with and without the use of digital technologies. Describe and interpret different data sets in context. Yr 7: Calculate mean, median, mode and range for sets of data, Interpret data displays using median, mean and range. ESL Secondary Learners The educational material in the No Smokes Study Guides would work best for students within ESL Levels 4-7, however activities can be modified to suit students within lower levels. Listening L L 4.1-7.1: Communication L L 4.3-7.3: Language structures and features L L 4.4-7.4: Learning-how-to-learn Speaking S L 4.1-7.1: Communication S L 4.3-7.3: Language structures and features S L 4.4-7.4: Learning-how-to-learn Reading R L 4.1-7.1: Communication R L 4.3-7.3: Language structures and features R L 4.4-7.4: Learning-how-to-learn Writing W L 4.1-7.1: Communication W L 4.3-7.3: Language structures and features W L 4.4-7.4: Learning-how-to-learn 2
Pre-viewing activities and questions for the Smoking Calculator 1. Ask the students what they would buy if they had $100 to spend. 2. Ask the students what they would buy if they had $1000 to spend. 3. Discuss how these things might make the students feel. E.g. relaxed, healthy, fit, fun with friends and family, happy, free etc. This is to illustrate that we can spend our money in ways that are good for our health and emotional wellbeing. 4. Explain to students that when someone is addicted to cigarettes, it means they feel they can t stop smoking. When people smoke they are spending a lot of money on cigarettes and becoming very sick at the same time. 5. Ensure students have an understanding of the word addicted before reading the scenarios. To explain addiction you can show the students the Tobacco Addiction Story animation. 3
Smoking Calculator Scenarios Read the following scenarios and enter the information into the Smoking Calculator. Record your findings on the table on the next page. Scenario 1 Michael is a 16 year old Aboriginal man who lives in Victoria. He started smoking 6 years ago when he was 10, when his auntie accidently left a packet of cigarettes at his house. He tried smoking and he soon became addicted. Now he smokes about 10 cigarettes every day, and even more on weekends. Each week he buys 3 or 4 packets of 20 cigarettes. Each packet costs him $15.50. Scenario 2 Sandra lives on the Torres Strait Islands in Queensland and is a 15 year old girl. She started smoking when she was 12 because her friends pressured her to join them. She became addicted and now she has been smoking for 3 years and 6 months. A pack of 20 cigarettes costs her $16.20 at her local store. She only smokes with her friends before school, in her lunch break and after school. On average she smokes 5 cigarettes each day. Scenario 3 Edward lives in Western Australia in a community called One Arm Point. He is an 18 year old man who smokes 20 cigarettes a day. He started smoking 5 years and 3 months ago when he was 13 years old. He wanted to smoke to be like his older brother. Each week he buys 7 packets of cigarettes. They cost him $15.80 a packet and there are 20 cigarettes in each packet. 4
Smoking Calculator Scenarios Results Table Put the information into the Calculator and record your findings on the table below. Calculator findings Michael Sandra Edward 1. How many cigarettes have they smoked in their life? 2. How much money have they spent on cigarettes in a week? 3. How much money do they spend on cigarettes in a year? 4. How much money do they spend on cigarettes in total? 5. How many hours have they lost from their life? 6. How many days have they lost from their life? 7. How many weeks have they lost from their life? 8. How many years have they lost from their life? 9. How much tar is in their lungs? 5
Comprehension questions for Calculator Scenarios 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. Who is spending the most money each week? Who has spent the most money on cigarettes in total? How much money does Edward spend each week? Think of three things Edward could do each week with that money instead of spending it on smokes. Who has smoked the most cigarettes in their life? Which two people have lost a year from their life because of smokes? Who has the most tar in their lungs? Which two people could go on an overseas holiday if they didn t spend all their money on cigarettes? Who could afford to buy a car if they didn t spend all their money on cigarettes? Sandra has already smoked over 6,000 cigarettes. If she continues to smoke what may happen to her lungs? If Michael continues to smoke for another six years (so 12 years in total) how much money will he end up spending on cigarettes? 12. Michael and Edward both lost a year of their lives because of smoking. Write down all your favourite things that happen in one year. It could be birthdays, festivals, trips, sporting events etc. 6
Post-activity discussion questions Discuss where the money spent on cigarettes goes. Who profits from smokers? Discuss Michael, Edward and Sandra s reasons for starting smoking. a. Why did they start smoking? b. What options / choices did they have? c. How can people deal with peer pressure? What does addiction mean? Ask students to write down their own definition and then choose the best ones. Use the Calculator to predict what will happen to Sandra, Michael and Edward in five or even 10 years time, if they continue smoking at the same rate. How would a build-up of tar in your lungs affect your day to day life? Is it a big deal? What illnesses are caused by smoking? Extension activities Create graphs of your findings from the three scenarios. For example, graph the money Sandra, Michael and Edward spent on cigarettes each week, each year and in total. Look at a catalogue, airfares or a shopping website and calculate all the things Sandra, Edward or Michael could buy with the money they spend on cigarettes. Make visual displays/posters of your findings. Create your own scenarios and give them to another student to enter into the Smoking Calculator. Interview smokers in your family or community using the Interview Worksheet, to collect information for the Smoking Calculator. a. Using the questions from the Interview Worksheet, practise interviewing other students. Then interview people in your wider community, recording their answers into the table on the Interview Worksheet into the interview table. b. Enter the information into the Smoking Calculator, and record the findings into the Interview Data table. c. Present your interview subjects with their individual findings. The findings could be presented directly from the table, written up in text form or undertaken as an oral presentation. A mathematical approach could involve students creating graphs using the data from interviews. d. Find out how the interview subject feels and thinks about their smoking addiction after hearing this information. Investigate smoking in your community. Find out from your local store how many packets of cigarettes are sold each day. Then use the Investigation Worksheet to conduct a series of calculations to find out how many cigarettes are smoked and how much your community is spending on buying them. a. Consider how your whole community would benefit if that amount of money was spent on something else? For example a swimming pool, basketball court, recreation hall etc. b. As a class decide the best way to present your findings to your local community. E.g. posters, stalls, leaflets etc. Make sure you include ways the money could be better spent to help your community. 7
Smoking Calculator - Interview Worksheet Interview smokers in your family or community and record their information into the table below. Person s name Age State or Territory How many cigarettes do you smoke each day? How much do you spend on a pack of cigarettes? How many cigarettes in each packet? How long have you been smoking for? 8
Interview Data Enter the information obtained from interviews into the Smoking Calculator and record the results below. Person s Name How many cigarettes have they smoked in their life? How much money have they spent on cigarettes in a week? How much money have they spent on cigarettes in a year? How much money have they spent on cigarettes in total? How many hours have they lost from their life? How many days have they lost from their life? How many weeks have they lost from their life? How many years have they lost from their life? How much tar is in their lungs? 9
Investigation Worksheet Visit your local store and find out about the cigarettes they sell. Fill in the table below. Brand No. of cigarettes in the packet Cost of packet in $ How many packets sold per day (on average) TOTAL: Work out the maths to find the answers to these questions below. Question Maths Answer How many cigarettes are in a packet on average? (total / number of brands) / average number of cigarettes in a packet How much is a packet of cigarettes on average? (total cost in $ / number of brands) / $ How many packets are sold in one day on average? + + + + + + + + + + packets sold in one day 10
Number of cigarette packets sold at your shop If packets are sold in one day (on average), then... Question Maths Answer How many packets are sold in one week? How many packets are sold in one year? Number of cigarettes sold at your shop Question Maths Answer How many cigarettes are sold in one day? packets sold in one week packets sold in one year cigarettes sold in one day How many cigarettes are sold in one week? How many cigarettes are sold in one year? cigarettes sold in one week cigarettes sold in one year Money spent at your shop on cigarettes Question Maths Answer How much money is spent on cigarettes each day on average? $ spent on cigarettes in one day How much money is spent on cigarettes each week? How much money is spent on cigarettes each year? $ spent on cigarettes in one week $ spent on cigarettes in one year 11