CAKE/MATHS WORDS/LANGUAGE

How to Use Math in Baking a Cake

"Baking a cake offers a tasty way to practice math skills, such as fractions and ratios, in a real-world context. Many steps of baking a cake, such as counting ingredients and setting the oven timer, provide basic math practice for young children. Older children and teenagers can use more sophisticated math to solve baking dilemmas, such as how to make a cake recipe larger or smaller or how to determine what size slices you should cut. Practicing math while baking not only improves your math skills, it helps you become a more flexible and resourceful baker."

Words I would associate with the two:

Proportion

Formula

Quantity

Volume

Size

Shape

Time

Ratios

Double, triple, half

Fractions

Surface area

Inch

Add up 

Multiply

I want to make usew of this language in my design and make sure there is a strong connection betweenthe theme of cakes and maths

Instructions

1. • 1
     Double, triple or halve the recipe to make several cakes or a smaller cake. This requires the manipulation of fractions.
   • 2
     Calculate the proportions of different ingredients. For example, a frosting recipe that calls for 2 cups cream cheese, 2 cups confectioners' sugar and 1/2 cup butter has a cream cheese, sugar and butter ratio of 4:4:1. Identifying ratios can also help you make recipes larger or smaller.
   • 3
     Use as few measuring cups as possible. For example, instead of using a 3/4 cup, use a 1/4 cup three times. This requires you to work with fractions.
   • 4
     Determine what time it will be when the oven timer goes off. For example, if your cake has to bake for 30 minutes and you set the timer at 3:40, the timer will go off at 4:10.
   • 5
     Calculate the surface area of the part of the cake that needs frosting. For example, a sheet cake in a pan only needs the top frosted, while a sheet cake on a tray needs the top and four sides frosted. A round layer cake requires frosting on the top, on each layer and on the sides.
   • 6
     Determine how large each slice should be if you want to serve a certain amount of people. For example, an 18 by 13 inch sheet cake designed to serve 25 people should be cut into slices that measure approximately 3 by 3 inches.
   • 7
     Add up the cost of your ingredients to find the cost of your cake. Estimate the cost of partially used ingredients, such as flour, by determining the fraction of the container used and multiplying that by the cost of the entire container.