Eat Your Math Homework is filled with delicious recipes created especially to teach math concepts to children of all ages and levels of cooking experience through real world application. This special cookbook does an exceptional job of introducing new math vocabulary and give students a chance to practice measurement skills. It also includes fun math facts and follow up activities! If you don’t have access to a sink, oven, or microwave the recipes available for use in your classroom may be limited, but either way this is a great text.
I first saw this book in the homeschool library of a family I frequently babysit for but after talking to the kids I realized they had either never used it or hadn’t in a very long time. We flipped through the pages and decided to make probability trail mix. I liked that the recipe could be altered to fit what they had in the pantry and realized that both kids could benefit from learning about probability, despite their differing prior knowledge. We mixed the trail mix together and created charts to estimate the likelihood of pulling out each ingredient. Both of the kids wrote down their estimations and after reaching into the mix ten times (and eating along the way!) we compared the numbers. The kids had fun and didn’t seem to realize that math was involved despite my emphasis on the vocabulary.
I would definitely consider using this text while babysitting, tutoring, or in a traditional classroom. If you’re interested in learning more check out free teacher guides and other related resources at www.eatyourmathhomework.com
I love the idea of this text. It seems like an awesome and inventive way to incorporate math concepts into the classroom. These types of lessons would be great to do on Fridays, as a fun and exciting way to the end the week. The one thing I think is important to touch on is to make sure that while making these recipes, to also be teaching the math concepts, whether before or after completing the recipe. That way students see the connection and it is explicit, rather than implicit. Overall, an awesome text that I will definitely check out!
What an interesting concept for a book. I really like the idea behind this, particularly the example you chose to share. Pulling out edible pieces of a trail mix is far more fun than drawing marbles 20 times. It also sounds like the activities are adaptable. I am curious to know what grade levels this book would be ideal for?
my math teacher used to play this game where two ppl would hold pliayng cards on their foreheads so that they could see the other persons number but not their own, than my teacher would tell the sum or product etc. (of course they have to know if its the product or the sum) of the two and the first person to guess their number won. i used to love that game! there is another one where hed call out (i think 3) numbers off the top of his head and we had to make them equal 28. you could only use the numbers once. that might not help you tho because i dont remember for sure if it was 3 numbers and if the goal was 28. but if you could figure it out, it was a great game.