Just as cookies go with milk and peanut butter goes with jelly, math and cooking go hand in hand. This fun-filled book shows you exactly how. With more than 60 activities and recipes to try, you can practice math while you cook! Get a handle on measurement, multiplication, division, fractions, percents, geometry, and more, while whipping up mouth-watering treats like scrumptious stromboli slices, chewy marshmallow-fudge squares, yummy chicken nuggets, and delicious butterscotch muffins. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced cook, you too can become a Math Chef. All activities and recipes are kid-tested and require only common ingredients and kitchen utensils. There's also a helpful list of safety rules, an explanation of basic cooking skills, and a complete nutrition guide.

 

There are 192 pages in this book. This book was published 1997 by John Wiley & Sons Inc .

JOAN D'AMICO is a cooking instructor at King's Cookingstudio in New Jersey and an educational consultant. JOAN D'AMICO is a home economics teacher who currently teaches cooking to elementary and middle school students at Kings Cookingstudio in New Jersey. KAREN EICH DRUMMOND is a registered dietitian and has written and edited several cookbooks, including Cook's Healthy Handbook (Wiley).

This book has the following chapters: MEASURING. How Many Grams is a Pound of Potatoes? How Many Quarts is a Liter of Milk? How Long is that Giant Cookie? How Much Soup is in a Bowl of Soup? What Does a Handful of Pasta Weigh? How Do You Cook Candy? ARITHMETIC. How Do You Triple a Sandwich Recipe? How Do You Cut an Applesauce Recipe in Half? How Much Lettuce Do You Need for 6 Salads? FRACTIONS AND PERCENTS. What's 1/3 of a Waffle? What's the Percent of Margarine in a Muffin? GEOMETRY. What's the Area of a Brownie? What's the Diameter of a Cupcake? What's the Circumference of a Pie? Appendices. Glossary. Index.