A fraction feast
Family time in the kitchen can lead to opportunities to explore fractions in real-life circumstances and tap into children's engagement in the harvest season. You might supplement the October problems by setting up a time for your students to talk with a professional chef or event planner about how they use fractions in their jobs.
Contributor Notes
Lara Kikosicki and Debbie Prekeges are teachers from cobblestone elementary school in rocklin, california. They are both participants in a camsp grant success and math leaders in their district.
Edited by christine D. Poulsen, cpoulsen@placercoe.k12.ca.us, and kimberlym Lilienthal, klilienthal@placercoe.k12.ca.us. Poulsen is a math grant coordinator for the placer county office of education and a project director for camsp math grant success in auburn, california. Lilienthal is a project director for camsp rims and an academic math coach for rims for the placer county office of education. E-mail problem collections for the editors to consider for future math by the month columns. See detailed submission guidelines at www.nctm.org/tcmdepartments. E-mail creative solutions and adapted problems to tcm@nctm.org for potential publication, noting readers exchange in the subject line.
