Cook up a lesson on unit conversions. Scholars brainstorm how chefs use math in restaurants, and then watch a video of a real chef explaining how unit conversions, food and supply costs, portion sizes, and payroll all require math. They then consider some related problems that require applying ratios and proportional reasoning.

Concepts

restaurants, ratios, proportional reasoning, unit conversions, dimensional analysis, percents

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Additional Tags

math

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Instructional Ideas

• Collaborate with a family and consumer sciences or economics teacher
• If time is an issue, use one of the worksheets as a take-home assignment
  

Classroom Considerations

• Pupils should be familiar with unit conversions through dimensional analysis
  

Pros

• Provides some discussion questions for instructors to use in the classroom
• Includes worksheets with answer key
  

Cons

• None

Common Core

6.RP.A.3.a 6.NS.B.2 6.NS.B.3 7.RP.A.3 7.NS.A.2.a 7.NS.A.3