Illustrative Mathematics
Making Cookies
Hooray for chocolate chip cookies! Ask your mathematicians to triple a chocolate chip cookie recipe and then reduce the recipe by one-fourth. Your class may need two days to complete, tripling the recipe the first day and reducing the...
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Measurement and Conversion of Units in a Recipe
In a cross-curricular measurement and literacy lesson, your class will identify and compare cooking measurement instruments. They read a recipe and sequence a set of similar instructions in which the steps have been mixed up....
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Fractions and Recipes
Learners, working with their parents in real world situations, calculate to complete three word problems associated with multiplying and dividing fractions.
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Get My Point!
Here is one of the better lessons I've come across on how to teach fractions and decimals. This lesson plan does a great job of showing how these two mathematical representations of numbers are interrelated. Some excellent websites,...
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My Math Curse!
Math novices examine how math can help them in real-world situations. They listen to the book The Math Curse by Jon Scieszka, solve various word problems from the book, explore various math websites, write original math word problems,...