Cooking - measuring
The purpose of this resource is to provide suggestions to whānau about how they can support measurement learning by cooking and baking together.
About this resource
This resource provides some ideas for how you can raise awareness and share mathematics using everyday experiences and resources found around your home. It includes ideas for supporting your children’s learning in all areas of mathematics: geometry, measurement, statistics, algebra, and numbers.
This page provides suggestions as to how mathematics learning can be supported by cooking and baking.
Cooking: Measuring
There are many different types of measurements included in cooking, including cups, teaspoons, tablespoons, millilitres, litres, grams, and kilograms.
Older children can learn about the equivalencies between measures such as 250 ml = 1 cup or 16 tablespoons = 1 cup or 1000g = 1 kg.
Discuss how important it is to be exact when measuring. Why do your measurements need to be more accurate when you are baking than when you are making a stirfry?
The quality of the images on this page may vary depending on the device you are using.