Harness students' interest in cooking by figuring out whether you have enough ingredients in the kitchen to make chocolate chip cookies, using equivalent ratios. Sixth grade.

1. Proportions in Recipes

2. Why are Proportions important in recipes?
2
Some of you are signed up to
take Family and Consumer
Sciences in 7th grade, or may
be cooking at home already.
T&T what do you know about
the proportions of ingredients
in recipes?

3. Let’s Plan to make some Chocolate Chip Cookies for Pi Day
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4. Scaling Up
This recipe makes about 5 dozen
cookies.
How many cookies is that?
How many students do we have in
sixth grade?
How many batches of cookies should
we make?
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5. Do I Have Enough Ingredients in the
Kitchen? - Eggs
5
Number
of
cookies
60 120
Number
of eggs
needed
2

6. Do I Have Enough Ingredients in the
Kitchen? - flour
6
Number
of
cookies
60 120
Cups of
flour
needed
2 ¼

7. Do I Have Enough Ingredients in the
Kitchen? - Brown Sugar
7
Number
of
cookies
60 120
Cups of
brown
sugar
needed
¾