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    You are here: Home / Learning Activities / Math Activities for Kids / Cookie Fractions Make Math Delicious

     

    Cookie Fractions Make Math Delicious

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    While I do like to explore creative ways to teach math, I may have gone a bit overboard with this one. This idea to teach fractions with cookies sounded great inside my head, but after execution my idea needs some refinement!

    Teach fractions with cookies!

    Some kids find fractions to be a tricky concept, so why not make learning fun adn delicious? Cooking offers many hands-on, practical opportunities to learn about fractions.

    We made cookies that were whole, in halves, in quarters and in thirds. I didn't anticipate that the actual baking process would puff up the sides of the cookies so the cooked pieces did not meet perfectly. With the second batch we scored the cookies and cut them after baking. That worked better.

    Kitchen math activity with cookies to teach fractions

    I also thought it would be fun to use the sprinkles as a visual guide to which pieces go with which cookies. I used artificial dye-free sprinkles because let's face it, artificial colors are not food.

    Creative math activity with cookies to teach fractions

    In the end the cookie fractions weren't as beautiful as they had been inside my head. This is often the case with me and crafty type projects!

    Anyway, even if your cookies fractions aren't perfect, use the bonding time in the kitchen to talk with your sous chef about shapes and how fractions work.

    More math fun in the kitchen:

    • Kitchen geometry: making hand pies
    • Cooking by the numbers: soft pretzel letters and numbers
    • 10 ways kids can help in the kitchen

    More fraction learning ideas:

    • Fraction games (free printable, part of our diy camp math series)
    • Fraction card game
    • DIY muffin tin geometry fraction puzzles with tangram blocks
    • DIY Montessori triangles
    Teach fractions with cookies! Fun math idea for kids
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    1. Sarah says

      July 28, 2009 at 4:05 am

      This is a great idea! Way to go for creativity!

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    2. sunnymama says

      July 30, 2009 at 12:05 am

      Great idea, and I think they look visually appealing 😉

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    3. c2cmom says

      February 01, 2011 at 2:05 pm

      Oh, this is an activity after my own heart. Educational, useful skill-building . . . and cookies! We're going to try this on our next snow day. Thanks for the idea and inspiration!

      Reply
    4. Sarah says

      July 08, 2012 at 1:50 am

      for more "visually appealing", there are all sorts of fruits/veggies that yield natural food coloring, you could dye the cookies themselves... as 1 option.

      Reply

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