KIDS COOKING WITH CALCULATIONS AND CHEMISTRY KC3 (Hyperlink main page)
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Knox Northwest cluster

Any age

 Apple and Blueberry Muffins Division of whole into fractions Change

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INGREDIENTS

 

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BUDGET

 Maximum $10.00

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METHOD

 

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Stuart, Corrie, Pam, Marlene

½ CUP (125g) butter.

½ Cup (125g) caster sugar

2 eggs (61g) beaten

1 ¼ Cups (190g) self raising flour

1/3 cup (85ml) milk

1 Apple (145g)

1 Punnet (150g) blue berries

 

 

 

Self-raising four – 2kg = $1.58 
 Flour =  16c

Butter – 500g = $1.98 
Butter = 50c

2 Doz. Eggs = $2.48 
2  Eggs - 21c

Milk – 2 litres = $3.50 
Milk = 20c

Caster sugar = 1kg $1.49
Caster Sugar = 18c

Blueberries = $4.98 punnet  
B/Berries = 98c

Apple  = 50c 
Apple = 50c

 

Total Cost of Making 12 Muffins = $6.24
1 muffin = 52c

  1. Wash hands  thoroughly.  

  2. Turn oven to 180°

  3. Cream butter and sugar

  4. Whisk egg and add to creamed sugar

  5. Add the milk to the mixture

  6. Fold in the flour to the mixture

  7. Add finely sliced apple

  8. Put aside 12 whole blueberries – these will be placed on the top of the muffins

  9. Cut the remainder of the blue berries into quarters and add to the mixture

  10. Divide the mixture into 12 large muffin pans.

  11. Cook at 180° Celsius for 15 minutes. 

 

 

COMPLETED RECIPE

 

KIDS COOKING WITH CALCULATIONS AND CHEMISTRY KC3 Reflection Section

COOKING WITH MATHS

 

What did you learn about maths and what principle did you  investigate? 

 

 

The principle of division was implemented. We had to find the cost of individual parts as opposed to the total cost of the package.

COOKING WITH SCIENCE

 

What did you learn about maths and what principle did you  investigate? 

Science Principle:

Change in matter (ingredients)

When heat is applied to substances (ingredients) the substances change form.

 In cooking we applied heat to the butter to change it into a liquid so that it could be mixed with other ingredients. What actually happens is that the molecules expand with heat and this transforms into a liquid form.

 

THINKING CURRICULUM

What did our group find out about the Thinking Curriculum especially Habits of Mind?

ONLINE TEAM WORK

What did we learn about computer technology, group work, working online with partners?

With out the use of calculators it was necessary for us to use higher order thinking to do the following:

    Calculated the cost of the recipe ensuring to not go over $10

    We adapted a recipe to fit the  ingredients available.

 

We used our own experiences:

    Turning oven on early so it          would be ready on time

    Melting the butter to make it easier to mix with the sugar.

    Mixing different fruit - apple and blueberry.

    Cutting up the blue berries before putting them in the mixture.

    Calculating the cost of  the muffins.

   Converting the cake recipe to make muffins.

    Predicting how many muffins we would end up with.

Intelligences Used:

Intrapersonal, Interpersonal, Spatial, Kinaesthetic, Verbal, linguistic, Logical/Maths 

Remember, understand, apply, analyse, designed, and evaluated.

 had difficulty at first contacting the other 1/2 of  our group.  This was because they didn't know what color they were.  They did not feel confident about working on the computer, and were waiting for us to contact them first.  The computer technology worked well, which was a good thing!  There wasn't a lot that we had to do, we told them what we were doing and they told us what they were doing.  However, there wasn't a lot more that we needed to do.

 

As a group we worked well together each happily taking on the "roles" that were needed.  We also worked well at swapping our "roles" when the need arose.