This project integrates the subject of pre-algebra (ratios and scale) with baking bread. This project includes history and writing and can easily be extended to include teachers from those subjects as well.
Students learn:
• Scaling fractions
• Equivalent fractions
• Solving proportions
• Baking
• Scaling recipes
• Converting servings to loaves to recipes
• Traditional first Thanksgiving recipes
• Creating their own recipes
• Writing about their creations
• Describing their ratios so people c