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 could we find in our kitchen that would give us an opportunity to create some fractions from a whole?”;“How would you divide the food into a half?” ; “What if you wanted smaller portions, how would you take the halves and divide them into enough sections for you and 2 other family members?” ; “What if there was company coming over, how many food portions 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.
Extension: Using the slide above, ask each learner to recreate the grade leveled practice sheet in their journal. Allow the younger ones to discuss the KD-1st option. Then let them draw and label one of the fraction cylinders.
Kitchen Lab: Discuss:“What type of food is in our pantry that we could recreate some fractions in order to discover if our reasoning is accurate? *Invite them to investigate their solutions: “Let’s investigate!”(apple slices with cheese sails; waffles or pancakes; soda cracker sandwiches; orange sections; banana slices; etc).
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