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Cooking is about mathematics too. When your little Masterchefs measure milk to help you make pancakes and you tell them how much to pour into the measuring cup, you are teaching them that numbers can be used to describe ‘how much’.
“The recipe tells us to put in 150ml of milk.”
“How many pancakes do you think we can make with this mixture?”
“How long do you think it is going to take for all the pancakes to be cooked? Do you think it’s going to take us 10 minutes like last time? Let’s set a timer to find out, shall we?”
When your children hear and see numbers being used to describe ‘how much’, ‘how many’ or ‘how long’ you are introducing them to one of the foundations of mathematics, that numbers can be used in different ways.
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