Cooking with Kids is a great way to promote mathematical thinking!
Basic maths concepts can be taught through all kinds of simple hands-on cooking activities.
- COOKING can present you with many opportunities for measuring, weighing, counting, and estimating.
- Cooking also provides many opportunities to use mathematical terms through casual conversation. “We are going to use three eggs,” or ”The recipe tells us we need to measure out 150 milliliters of milk!”
- Spending a bit of quality time with kids in the kitchen is an inviting, fun, hands-on approach to building mathematical skills.
- The greater role children can take in the cooking process, the more they will be able to put into practice basic mathematical thinking and skills.
Here is another easy no bake recipe to make yummy treats with your kids:
Chocolate
Crispies
Chocolate crispies are a birthday party food favourite
with all kids. Happily, they are super-simple to make and there's always a
couple left over for adults to enjoy too.
YOU NEED:
- 4
cups rice crispies
- 1
1/2 cups icing sugar
- 1
cup desiccated coconut
- 1/4
cup hundreds and thousands
- 3
tablespoons cocoa
- 250g
milk cooking chocolate
WHAT TO DO:
- 1. In a large bowl combine rice crispies, icing sugar, coconut, hundreds and thousands and cocoa. Mix well.
- 2. Melt cooking chocolate in a small saucepan over medium heat. When completely melted, pour over the dry ingredients.
- 3. Mix well, ensuring all ingredients are covered with melted chocolate.
- 4. With a spoon, fill cupcake cases and place on a baking tray. Chill in the fridge for one hour.
- 5. OUR “BUZZI BRAINS” CHILDREN MADE A FACE WITH SMARTIES ON TOP OF EACH ONE – THIS WAS A GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO PRACTICE MATHS = WORKING OUT HOW MANY BLUE EYES, GREEN NOSES AND RED MOUTHS THEY WOULD NEED!
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