- Today’s kitchen math discussion: “What do you notice?”
- Next Inquiry: “What don’t you know?”
- Investigation: Materials: paper/pencils/colored pencils/crayons or family learning journals (back of journal). Remind them to turn to the next available page and date it. Ask them to write the name for today’s kitchen math.
- Inquire: “What fractions would you label the apple sections, the orange sections, and the banana sections?”
- Next: Take a look at the apple “sail boats.” “If you cut the 4 apple sections in half… how many sail boats could you make?”; “How many cheese slices would you need to make the sails?”; “How many toothpicks would you need?” *Let them have 5-6 minutes to draft their thoughts (without talking). When they are finished, have them share how they came to their conclusions.
- Next: Take a look at the orange character. “How many slices would it take to re-create the orange character?” *What might they need to know before they created a solution equation?
- Kitchen Lab: Discuss: “What type of banana snack should we make to discover if today’s solutions can create a geometric shaped snack will work for the banana sections?” *Invite them to investigate their solutions: “Let’s investigate!”
