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Math Chef: Over 60 Math Activities and Recipes for Kids by Joan D'Amico β€” book cover

Math Chef: Over 60 Math Activities and Recipes for Kids

by Joan D'Amico, Karen Eich Drummond
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Overview

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.

Relates math and cookery by presenting math concepts and reinforcing them with recipes. Provides practice in converting from English to metric system, multiplying quantities, measuring area, estimating, and more.

Synopsis

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.

Children's Literature

The authors, one a cooking instructor and educational consultant and the other, a registered dietitian and cookbook author, have collaborated to produce this kitchen-centered math book. The focus is on measurement, metric and English; and on providing hands-on math experiences for children. The result is fun and delicious! How could you miss? The authors have two other books-The Science Chef and The Science Chef Travels Around the World.

About the Author, Joan D'Amico

JOAN D'AMICO is a cooking instructor at Kings Cookingstudio in New Jersey and an educational consultant to various school systems. KAREN EICH DRUMMOND is a registered dieti-tian and the author of several cookbooks, including Cook's Healthy Handbook (Wiley). Ms. D'Amico and Ms. Drummond are coauthors of The Science Chef and The Science Chef Travels Around the World.

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Editorials

Children's Literature - Judy Katsh

The authors, one a cooking instructor and educational consultant and the other, a registered dietitian and cookbook author, have collaborated to produce this kitchen-centered math book. The focus is on measurement, metric and English; and on providing hands-on math experiences for children. The result is fun and delicious! How could you miss? The authors have two other books-The Science Chef and The Science Chef Travels Around the World.

School Library Journal

Gr 4-6Cooking and math make such a natural combination that a book about both should be a real winner; unfortunately, that is not the case with The Math Chef. The recipes are interesting and tasty, and the directions, including safety precautions, are good; the black-and-white illustrations show both boys and girls involved in the process. In fact, as a children's cookbook, this title works well. The math is introduced and explained adequately, but its inclusion in the recipes seems more of an afterthought; for instance, when the concept of area is introduced in a two-page explanation, the only connection it has to the four recipes are that the sizes of the baking pans are highlighted. When weights are discussed, the weight equivalents 1 _ pounds [700 grams] of tomatoes of the ingredients are given. Unlike Vicki Cobb's Science Experiments You Can Eat HarperCollins, 1984, the math and the food preparation here are not interdependent. If you need another good recipe collection, this one is fine, but it will fare better in the cooking section than in the 510s.JoAnn Rees, Sunnyvale Public Library, CA

Book Details

Published
December 1, 1996
Publisher
Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
Pages
192
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780471138136

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