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Doubling and Halving a Recipe
After looking at a recipe worksheet that is attached to this plan, your class should be able to figure out the equivalent numbers, units, and amount of ingredients.
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Recipe Fractions
Young scholars practice multiplying and dividing fractions by doubling, halving, tripling, etc., recipes from a cookbook.
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Doubling a Recipe
In this measurement worksheet, learners help El Mundo the Great Wizard double his recipe for baking a cake by figuring out the measurements he will need for each ingredient.
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Using Seasonal Cooking to Practice Math Skills
Students can use holiday recipes to practice measurement, conversion and other math skills.
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Fractions and Measuring in Cooking
Sixth graders explore cooking by creating food in class. In this ingredient measurement lesson, 6th graders discuss some of their favorite foods and review the proper recipes to cook them. Students utilize fractions to create a new...
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Have a Thai day!
Students participate in a fund raiser for the Thai Children's trust. In this sociology instructional activity, students prepare for a Thai Day by making puppets, having a cake sale, making fans, and performing Thai dances.
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Comparing and Ordering Fractions
Third graders create fractions from concrete materials, then use paper fractions.
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Pbs Learning Media: Crumpets Recipe
In this Cyberchase video segment, Shari Spotter gets help from the CyberSquad in doubling a recipe for crumpets.
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Pbs Learning Media: The Right Amount of Cupcake Mix
In this video segment from Cyberchase, Bianca doubles the ingredients in a cupcake recipe that includes fractional amounts.