Early Math Project

Satisfy your taste buds with 19 different kid friendly recipes!

 

Topics: spatial relationships, counting, measurement, fractions, cause and effect, sequencing, time, estimating, comparisons

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Activities To Do Together: 

• Try some of the recipes in the book.

• Make up some recipes of your own with your child.

• Compare different measurements like a teaspoon versus a tablespoon, a quarter of a cup versus a half of a cup.

• Double a recipe.

• Figure out if you have enough ingredients to make a certain recipe.

• Estimate the amount of time it will take to complete the recipe before you begin. Keep track of how long it actually takes.

 

Extension Questions: 

1. Have you cooked before? What did you make? Describe what you did first, next, and last. 

2. Do you think the order of the steps and ingredients in a recipe matter? Why or why not?

3. If a recipe will feed 2 people, what would you need to do to feed 4 people? If a recipe will feed 8 people, but you only want to feed 4 people, what would you do?

 

Vocabulary for Building Math Concepts:

1/4, 1/2, 3/4, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, center, cup, halfway, minutes, on, pound, side, tablespoon, teaspoon, top

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Please check out the Book Guide for Pretend Soup for more!

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Online External Resources for Pretend Soup:

• Website for Mollie Katzen

• Guide for Cooking in the Classroom by Ann Henderson

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