Timely ideas and information, with daily updates. Frequently Asked Questions Thousands of web sites for educators and students. Support for long-term classroom planning and professional development. Information covering important topics for today's educators and parents. This book, for second and third grade teachers, is one of a series of math based, hands-on thematic units.
Children apply math concepts and skills to home and school situations.
The units include teacher resource pages, student forms for recording information, activity sheets, and patterns. This unit includes recipes and activities related to the kitchen and cooking. Children also explore cost comparison for grocery items and are introduced to the power of advertising. Baking cookies, for example, provides opportunity for a class survey of favorite cookies, a shopping expedition to collect prices of the items needed for cookie recipe, a comparison of prices and questions on the best buys, writing a letter to parents as well as a journal entry on baking cookies, and finally solving math problems in measurement and computation. ENC does NOT distribute this resource.