My last post was all about sourdough baking and making a sourdough starter. Pretty cool stuff and my starter has made some great bread for me! Gets me thinking about cooking as science, since it IS science!
Here is an interesting link: Science of Cooking
Looks like a lot of cool ideas! This website can keep you in science experiments for a long time!
Many of you will see the science in cooking, but where is the math? Have you ever tried to halve a recipe? Or maybe double it? If you are doubling a recipe and it calls for 3/4 cups of flour, how much flour do you need? These are all valid math "problems" all in the guise of simply cooking!
What if cooking is not really for you? You can use cup measures and spoon measures with water to show the relationships in the fractions. Take the same "problem" above but use water to figure it out. A large liquid measure and a couple small ones would work wonders! Your child can fill the smaller liquid measure to 3/4 and then pour into the larger one, then do 3/4 again. She will see that she gets 1 1/2 cups of liquid. This is ALL math! Design a math and science program using cooking!
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