You can find math fun anywhere you look!
Today we are looking at the kitchen and with the holiday season in full swing there is bound to be baking and cooking taking place in your kitchen.
The kitchen is full of numbers for all levels of math:
Counting
- Count the number of people coming over for dinner
- Count the number of ingredients used in the recipe
- Count the number of cookies on a baking sheet
- Count the number of cookies on batch of dough makes
Fractions
- Learn about fractions when measuring ingredients using cups and measuring spoons
- Doubling or halving a recipe
Shapes
- Learn about shapes when making cookies and use different cookie cutters to create even more shapes
- Look at what shapes the containers of ingredients are in
- See how you can turn one shape into another, i.e. Cut a slice of pie and see what shape you get next
Time
- Counting backwards with timers
- Time it takes to make something, from start to finish, including cooling time
- Time that dinner will be served
By the time your recipes are finished your students will have had lots of fun and learned mathematical skills without even knowing it!
