Just how much of each ingredient is required? The resource works a few examples of scaling a recipe to feed more or fewer people than outlined. Pupils follow the examples to work out similar problems.

Concepts

recipes, scale, unit rates, proportional reasoning, scale factors

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Additional Tags

math

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Instructional Ideas

• Have individuals bring in recipes from home; tell them to change the measurements for serving a different number of people
• Brainstorm other methods to arrive at the amount of ingredients

Classroom Considerations

• Requires class members to understand scaling

Pros

• Provides an answer key for each worksheet
• The video starts off with a problem that is easy to do mentally and illustrates the concept

Cons

• None

Common Core

SL.6.2 SL.7.2 6.RP.A.3.a 7.RP.A.3 MP1 MP7