High School Programs Math Cooking Resources

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Integrated Prealgebra and Cooking Project Ratios and Scale

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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

4th - 9th

Fractions, Native Americans

Super Bowl Meal Planning Challenge + Dietary Restrictions Extension Option

Created by

Let It Shine Co

Bring the excitement of the Super Bowl into your classroom with this highly engaging, real-world meal planning challenge! Students become catering teams hired to design a Super Bowl party menu for "The Chefs" (a playful spin inspired by the famous commercial of a football field painting mishap) while practicing essential life skills like collaboration, budgeting, nutrition planning, and food safety. This lesson is thoughtfully organized into four "quarters" with built-in checkpoints to keep stu

7th - 10th

Applied Math, Family Consumer Sciences, Other (Math)

Cooking Time A Cooking Math Project on the Importance of Time in the Kitchen

Created by

Whatever Works Education

Middle school students learn time-efficient strategies to prepare everyday meals. Engage your students with cooking lessons that combine time pressure and kitchen skills! Teach them the best way to hard boil eggs. Role-Play short order cooking! Perform a science culinary experiment with simple spaghetti. Adolescents love to cook for themselves. Given the right tools in the kitchen, this can be a powerful way for them to learn math, problem solving, and self-efficacy that they are capable of ca

7th - 10th

Math, Science

Also included in: STEAM Project on the History of Time

FREE! See my work! :) Sugar Cookies- Roll Out

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Culinary Lessons Unstressed by Chef Patti

Perfect for beginners! This roll out cookie dough recipe is quick and full of easy advice to make the perfect small batch of roll out cookies. Chill quickly flattened out or overnight. Littered with helpful advice to circumvent any mishaps!

9th - 12th

Applied Math, Family Consumer Sciences, Other (Arts)

Pi Day Pizza Party: A Delicious Slice of Math

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Megs Study Corner

Celebrate Pi Day with your students in the most delicious way possible! Our Pi Day Pizza Party activity combines the joy of cooking with the wonders of mathematics, providing a unique, hands-on learning experience suitable for students in grades 5-9. This thoughtfully crafted activity not only introduces students to the concept of Pi (π) but also applies it in a fun and engaging context: making pizza! What’s Included:Comprehensive Lesson Plan: Step-by-step instructions to guide you through the a

5th - 9th

Applied Math, Math

CCSS, NGSS

6.G.A.1

, 7.G.B.4

, 7.RP.A.2

Restaurant Cooking Project

Created by

Kate McClusky

This is a project based learning assignment in which students plan, budget, shop for and prepare a meal for the class. Students love it and it provides great cross-curricular connections as they need to use skills from a variety of areas, all while improving their own practical life skills. A reflection is included at the end to be completed after the students have completed the project and event day.

4th - 10th

Measurement

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