{"id":4160,"date":"2010-11-28T20:55:52","date_gmt":"2010-11-28T20:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.provoprimaryblog.com\/?p=4160"},"modified":"2011-05-26T01:36:24","modified_gmt":"2011-05-26T01:36:24","slug":"cooking-up-a-math-lesson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/year-4\/cooking-up-a-math-lesson\/","title":{"rendered":"Cooking Up A Math Lesson"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Our Year 4\/5 learned first-hand why paying attention in Math class can turn you from flop to top in the work place.<\/p>\n

The children are currently learning about weights and measures, but to take the lesson out of theory in into practice, their teacher asked the chefs at our local ‘Beaches Resort’ to give her a little help. Chef Darren invited the students into his kitchen to see how he and other chefs use math everyday cooking up perfection in the kitchen.
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\n“If you don\u2019t measure the ingredients correctly, your dishes will not turn out right, and the guests won\u2019t be happy,\u201d he explained. To help demonstrate this, Chef Darren put the children into small groups cooking up pancakes, specifically using incorrect measurements of certain ingredients to let kids see the outcome.
\n\u201cWhat do you think happens if we use too much salt, baking powder or too much milk?\u201d he asked. The answer was written on their faces as the children had the chance to taste the difference math can make.
\n\u201cThe pancakes with too much salt were terrible,\u201d said one child.
\nTaking math from the classroom to the kitchen was a great way to help the children to understand the importance of math and the practical application.
\nEveryone from the children to the chefs at Beaches learned something from the experience.
\n\u201cIt was fun for us to have the children visit the kitchen, and we are happy we could help them understand how lessons at school are important in everyday life,\u201d said P.R. Manager Eleanor Finfin.
\nChef Darren also gave the children some tips on healthy eating, but most importantly, he taught them that math is more than just numbers \u2014 it can also be delicious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our Year 4\/5 learned first-hand why paying attention in Math class can turn you from flop to top in the work place. The children are currently learning about weights and measures, but to take the lesson out of theory in into practice, their teacher asked the chefs at our local ‘Beaches Resort’ to give her […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,17],"tags":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4160"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5233,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4160\/revisions\/5233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}