Using all our Maths skills to make Chocolate Brownies!!!

Today was the last day of Term 3. To celebrate we made some chocolate brownies. We had to use a lot of Maths to get the job done.

First we had to double the recipe to make enough for everyone. We used our doubles, 2x tables, fractions and place value knowledge to work this out.

Then we looked at the equipment and discussed the names and shapes of things, we found geometry and measurement helped us here. We also compared the weight of the brown sugar and the butter, most of us agreed the brown sugar was heavier!!

After than we had to measure out the ingredients and mix it all together, our reading helped us to know what to do, Janelle helped us when we used the stove top.

After it was all mixed we put it in the oven. To know when it would be ready we skip counted in 5's around the clock. It was the end of Morning Tea when it was ready. Great!!!

But our next problem was to work out how to cut the slices. We used Arrays and our Multiplication strategies to plan this before we cut the slices. We planned to cut one into 5x5=25 and the other into 4x6=24. We hoped we might get enough for 2 slices each!!

Mr Evans then cut it cause that was a bit tricky and dangerous... and the results are....