What a fun day we had last week! My Pre-Algebra classes have been working on proportions and I really wanted to do something fun and have them see how you can use proportions in your every day life. I decided to take a no cook salsa recipe and queso recipe and have the students increase or decrease the recipes. We looked at the servings for each recipe and I had each class decide how many servings they wanted to make. I did it this way because I didn't want it to be as easy as just doubling the recipe. It was then up to them to decide how much of each ingredient we needed using proportions.
The next day was cooking day! The students did such a great job and I think they learned a lot more than just how to use proportions. I couldn't believe that some of them didn't know how to use a can opener and was amazed to see how some of them had such great knife skills! It was a great lesson all around and the students really enjoyed it!
