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 Post subject: Need some creative math help!
PostPosted: Tue Nov 11, 2014 11:53 am 
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I have been graciously "invited" to make my ever-so-famous chocolate chip cheesecake squares for a 10th grade math class...analytical geometry. There are 30 students plus the teacher.

I would like to come up with some creative math problems related (or not) to the cheesecake squares....just for fun.

Can you help? Answers to the problems would be nice, but not totally necessary.

In this recipe there are:
60 oz chocolate chip cookie dough
16 oz cream cheese
2 eggs
1 cup sugar
I will bake these in 2 batches using 9x13 inch pans. Each pan will have 16 squares (or actually more like rectangles)

any kind of problem goes.....probability, ratio, area, volume, etc.

And what about one or two goofy, off-the-wall questions like "Who is buried in Grant's tomb?"

TIA!

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 Post subject: Re: Need some creative math help!
PostPosted: Wed Nov 12, 2014 2:32 pm 
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Not ignoring you, Laurajean - I just have NO clue. I have to remove my shoes to add numbers with sums greater than 10. I sure couldn't do Analytic Geometry puzzles. Sorry.

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 Post subject: Re: Need some creative math help!
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I'd definitely go in for what percentage is sugar or eggs. Of course, you'll have to have the amount of sugar in the dough to make that problem work accurately. If you tell them how many calories are in sugar, they can calculate the total sugar calories in the batch, and then divide by the number of cookies you made to get sugar calories per cookie. (This won't be total calories.)

Give them the measurement of the cookie sheet and show them a diagram of squares cut in half to make triangles. Ask them to figure how many cookies if each row and column is 1 inch.

If you can get an idea of how many chocolate chips are in the batch, you can have them divide to see how many chips would be in each cookie. Then they can nibble slowly to find out if their particular cookie is above or below average.

You can also list how many chips are in each cookie (as they nibble slowly), add the numbers together, and find the mean, median, and mode.

Hope that gets you started!

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 Post subject: Re: Need some creative math help!
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Thanks!

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 Post subject: Re: Need some creative math help!
PostPosted: Thu Nov 13, 2014 12:57 am 
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Reminds me of the time my 4th grader decided to make himself ONE cupcake! He did the math and he made ONE cupcake, perfectly! He didn't bother with the frosting. :)

The only thing I can think of is measuring class girth or weight after eating the bars! LOL


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