Math in the Home

Cooking Cookies:

Fractions, multiplication, division, telling time.

Shopping for ingredients: nutritional value, unit price, price comparison, calories.

Sharing, service, packaging, dividing, food safety.

Home Maintenance:

Painting: Measuring, surface area, perimeter, coverage, calculate how many cans, color theory.

Mowing the lawn: time, rate, fuel consumption, cost.

Eating Cereal:

Serving size, recommended daily value, weights, unit conversion, percent’s.

In the Home:

Cups per gallon of milk, distance to kitchen, wake up time to be ready, change skim milk for whole milk, cost of lights, gallons of water per shower.

Traveling:

Miles per gallon, velocity, speed, compass coordinates, map reading, driving rules