Maths in the kitchen

Recipe Maths

There is lots of maths that can be done when using recipes and baking:

1. Weigh ingredients

2. Calculate quantities e.g. If you wanted to make twice as many flapjacks, how much butter would you need? How much does the oats and sugar weight altogether?

3. Calculate ratios e.g. What is the ratio between the sugar and the butter?

4. Use time e.g. If I put the flapjacks into the oven at 4:30, what time will they be ready?



Fruit Kebabs

1. Observe and copy – Make a fruit kebab the same as another one.

2. Repeated patterns – Make or continue a fruit pattern on the kebab.

3. Fractions – What fraction of the kebab is strawberry? Make a fruit kebab where half is grapes etc.

4. Ratio – What is the ratio of orange to melon? Etc.

5. Proportion – What proportion is strawberry? Etc.

6. Multiplication – How many grapes would you need for 5 kebabs? Etc.

7. Subtraction – If I eat 3 bits of fruit how many will I have left? Etc.