Category Archives for Math and Food
Monster cake
Jodie Berman, a future math teacher, loves mathematics and loves to cook. We’ve created an activity based on her Monster Cake from her blog Binomial Baker. Students find the surface area covered by M&Ms to approximate how many M&Ms … Continue reading
Holiday candy sales 2012
Another Candy holiday is upon us. Brian asks students to translate a pie chart of information on candy sale expenditures to actual dollars spent for 4 major candy holidays … Halloween, Easter, Christmas and Hanuka, and Valentine’s Day. Serve a … Continue reading
Passover Macaroons 2012
Passover begins this year on Friday evening, April 6th, with a Passover seder dinner. Passover is one of the three high holidays in the Jewish religion and celebrates the Exodus of Jews from slavery in Egypt. Let your students review … Continue reading
Shamrock Shake
For Saint Patrick’s Day add a little nutrition math to your celebration. In this post we look at calories, carbohydrates, sugars, fats, and proteins to decide what would be left for our day’s meal allotment after we had lunch and … Continue reading
Four Valentine activities
For Tuesday, Valentine’s Day, we have four different activities that you can use in your classroom. Sweetheart Candies - Explore unit measure with sweet little hearts. Valentine Cardioid - Do some art in your math class. Chocolates - Discover the surface area of … Continue reading
Chocolates
Valentine’s Day is here again and that means candies and chocolate. In this activity students approximate the volume (through finding surface area) of three different pieces of chocolate. The chocolates are shaped like a heart, a bat (for Halloween) and … Continue reading
Sweetheart Candies
Here is your Valentine’s Day (Tuesday, February 14th) lesson. What more could kids want then Sweetheart candies, problem solving, critical thinking, and number sense reasoning. Enjoy! sweetheart-candy2012.pdf For members we have solutions and Word documents. sweetheart-candy2012.doc sweetheart-candy2012-solutions.doc sweetheart-candy2012-solutions.pdf CCSS: … Continue reading
Gumballs galore
Show Brian’s video to your class and let your students cogitate, estimate and calculate. Sheet with only a still shot from the video and room for figuring: gumball-image.doc gumball-image.pdf We have a solution of sorts for … Continue reading
Not Enough Mashed Potatoes for Thanksgiving
Using his famous mashed potato recipe, Brian has asked students to change decimals to fractions, to calculate ingredient measures for various-sized Thanksgiving gatherings, to explain their thinking in calculating these figures, and to judge how many servings could be created … Continue reading
Largest Cup of Coffee Ever!
The world record for the largest cup of coffee was recently set (see picture above). In this activity students explore scale, similar figures, volume and measurement as they estimate the amount of coffee that this record-sized mug holds. Students also … Continue reading
Big Burger
Time to treat the kids to ratios, proportions, fractions and big burgers! In this activity students explore ratio of the different ingredients in the world’s largest burger. They then apply this ratio of ingredients to other giant burgers. This is … Continue reading
Gathering the most candy
Use your student’s Halloween enthusiasm to do a study on volumes. Leslie and Brian have created an activity that asks students to calculate the volume of candy containers that are silly and intriguing. Skip the cone and the sphere to … Continue reading
Giant Pumpkins and Pie
Let your students marvel at World Record winning giant pumpkins as they use proportions to calculate the quantities of pumpkin puree and the number of pumpkin pies that could be made from one of these giants. Students also review measures … Continue reading
Starbucks
Do you recognize the new logo? Time to give students some authentic math on a topic they will surely be interested in … Starbucks. We ask and answer a few questions in this activity. About how many drinks does Starbucks … Continue reading
Cheesy Goldfish (Ratio and Proportion)
In this activity students do a little comparison shopping as they determine which size Goldfish product is the best deal. Students are introduced to the ratio table as a tool for determining equivalent ratios and comparing different rates. Students graph … Continue reading
