- Today’s kitchen math discussion: “What do you notice?” *How many segments?
- 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: “How would you prepare the gourd for serving one person?” ; “What if you wanted to serve 2 people?”; “What would you need to know for serving 5 or 10 people?” “Is there more or less pumpkin seeds in this mini gourd?” *Let them have 5-6 minutes to draw their thoughts (without talking). When they are finished, have them share how they came to their conclusions.
- Kitchen Lab: Discuss: “What type of experiment should we make to discover if our reasoning is accurate? *Invite them to investigate their solutions: “Let’s investigate!”
- Kitchen Extension: What’s for dinner this week? Consider a grocery store outing. Allow each member to pick out one of the various mini gourds. There are many recipes that can be googled.
