Use Math While Baking Peg’s Honey Cake
Peg and her friends find math all around them, including in the kitchen. As you bake and decorate a delicious honey cake, look for all the ways you use math — from measuring the ingredients, to setting the oven temperature and timer, to decorating the cake with geometric patterns.
Ingredients
Directions
Mix the box cake according to directions on the box.
Add 4 vanilla pudding cups to the batter and stir until combined.
Line the muffin pan with muffin cups and pour the mix into the muffin cups.
Bake the cupcakes according to the directions on the box, until the edges are light brown. To test if it’s ready, stick a toothpick or fork into the cake. If it comes out clean, the cake is done!
While the cupcakes cool, talk about how you will decorate your cupcakes – what colors, shapes, and patterns will you use based on the fruit you have available? Cut fruit into small pieces.
Once cool, squeeze honey in a spiral pattern on top of each cupcake.
Decorate each cupcake with a fun fruit pattern – such as blueberry, raspberry, blueberry, raspberry.
While you decorate, talk about the patterns you’re creating. What does the pattern remind you of? What other things have a repeating pattern like this?
Emotions & Self-Awareness
Social Skills
Character
Math
- Activity Type
- Recipe
- Topics