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Team 2
Ms. Jeanine Perrotta
Let's Make Cookies
For this mathematics project, you will interview people about favorite cookie recipes. Once you find the recipe, you will experiment with it and make the cookies. Once you have settled on a delicious cookie recipe, you will double it and cut it in half to accommodate different group sizes.
Activities
Activity 1: Interviewing
Interview your parents, grandparents or other adults who know how to make homemade cookies. After interviewing at least 2 adults, choose one of their recipes to work with for this project. The ingredients in the recipe should involve some fractions. If you choose a recipe that contains nuts, you will not be able to bring them to school for your project presentation, unless you can leave the nuts out of the recipe.
Activity 2: Researching
With an adult present, put the recipe to the test and make cookies for your family to enjoy. Can you think of any ingredients you may want to add to the recipe to improve it, such as chocolate chips, oatmeal, sprinkles, raisins or nuts? How much of the ingredient would you add? You may want to test different amounts until you perfect your recipe.
Activity 3: Calculating
Now that your family enjoyed the cookies, adjust the recipe to make double your recipe and cut your recipe in half. Write down the adjusted ingredient amounts in a table/spreadsheet. Did you multiply or divide to adjust the recipe? Explain.
Activity 4: Cookie Presentation
On the day of the presentation, each student will explain to the class why his/her cookie is the best. Students may bring in cookies for the class. No cookies with nuts are allowed. In addition to the presentation, students should turn in one sheet of paper, preferably horizontal and in three columns to show the original recipe, the doubled recipe and the recipe in half. On another sheet of paper, students should turn in a three paragraph written piece which includes how the recipe was chose, an explaination of how one doubles/splits fractions, and and overall reflection on the project.
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