Cooking with Math!

How much flour does a cookie recipe need? What if you double the recipe? With this book, simple word problems encourage readers to consider the many ways math is used in the kitchen to make delicious desserts. They'll use math strategies and knowledge acquired in the classroom to solve each problem and check their work against a concluding answer key. Including four recipes that readers can make themselves or with just a little help from an adult, this volume will be a hit with the culinary curious and mathematically minded alike.

There are few people who don't love some combination of toppings on pizza. From pepperoni to pineapple, the options are endless and fun to test out together. Readers find four recipes for pizza they can make with minimal help from an adult alongside word problems based on the recipes. Including math topics covered in the math curriculum, each problem asks readers to apply their math skills to the real world of the kitchen. A concluding answer key lets readers check their work, though a taste test will work just as well.

Snacks can be as simple as a cheese stick or as complicated as ants on a log or chocolate chip cookies. Readers can try out four different snack recipes using this book and a little help from an adult as well as hone their math skills in the real world of their kitchen. Each recipe is paired with a word problem using measuring, addition, subtraction, and more. Written especially for young readers, each problem contains clue words and other achievable language to help readers solve it.

Soups often contain meat and vegetables, but readers will be surprised to learn that soups can have fruit too. Readers expand their expectations of soup with four great, different recipes they can make with limited assistance from an adult. Each fosters independence in the kitchen and culinary curiosity, as well as helps readers apply math to the real world. Each recipe is accompanied by a word problem that uses skills from the math curriculum, including addition, subtraction, measuring, and more. A concluding answer key allows readers to check their solutions.

Whether you prefer pasta hot or cold, with red sauce or butter, this book has a recipe for everyone. It also incorporates achievable math content straight from math curricula in the form of word problems that ask readers to take their skills in the classroom and bring them into the kitchen. With four recipes young chefs and mathematicians can try with minimal help from an adult, this book brings STEM into the real world, supporting the notion that math is fun and all around us.

What makes a salad, a salad? Does it have to have lettuce? Could it have a bean or corn base? This book broadens readers' understanding of just what this healthy staple can be made of while using the four recipes as a jumping off point to practice math skills. Word problems based on each recipe ask readers to use topics from the classroom and bring them to the kitchen, including measuring, addition, subtraction, and more. Readers can check their work using a concluding answer key, and try out their new recipes on friends and family.