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Friday, November 06, 2015

Ann McCallum - Eat Your Math Homework - Review

My daughters and I were recently blessed to review Eat Your Math Homework from Ann McCallum Books. This was such a fun review for my daughters and even myself. I enjoyed watching them read and interact with each other to complete all the fun math activities that are included in it.

What is Eat Your Math Homework?

Eat Your Math Homework is a 48 page book written by Ann McCallum. Math and cooking have always gone hand-in-hand, but Ann McCallum takes it to a whole new level in this wonderful book. The book is filled with wonderful hands-on cooking activities that are not only fun but explore a ton of great math concepts. We really enjoyed the book and thought that it was well written and easy to follow along with.

Each section includes fun math facts and an edible math project. The recipes include Fibonacci snack sticks based on the famous sequence of numbers, fraction chips made from cut-up tortillas, tessellating two-color brownies, milk and tangram cookies, variable pizza pi and probability trail mix. Also, each section includes a math "appeteaser." These were fun math questions that my daughters enjoyed trying to solve.

How My Daughters Used Eat Your Math Homework

We sat down and read this book together as a family. It's a fairly short book, so reading through it was quite simple. My daughters loved it and they couldn't wait to start trying out the fun kitchen activities.

A couple years ago, my oldest daughter received some tangram puzzle cards. She loved them so much and spent hours playing with them. When she saw that there was a lesson on tangram cookies she leaped with joy. It was the first one she wanted to do. She appreciated that each lesson includes the tools needed as well as an ingredient list and instructions. She quickly checked to make sure we had everything that was needed. When she saw we did, she was even more thrilled. I enjoyed watching her as she read the instructions provided in the book and did each step. We were all pretty happy with the end results and she really enjoyed making a tangram scene.

When she was all done, we ate the cookies and they were delicious. My husband arrived home to find a piece for him as well and he said that he thought that the book was working out wonderful for our family. Perhaps, it's because he enjoyed the yummy treats or perhaps, it was because he knew his daughters were having fun and learning. I'll assume both.

My other two daughters favorite activity was the probability trail mix. The had a blast setting up the activity as well as learning about probability. They had fun recording the results and seeing how close they were to their predictions.

I loved this book so much and I know my daughters enjoyed it as well. I appreciated the fact that there is a math review that follows all the lessons and glossary for some of the harder words. My daughters did have trouble with some of the words and the glossary proved to be very helpful. Most of the harder words are in bold.

We haven't completed all of the activities, but I foresee them all done in the near future. I have a feeling this is a book that will be put to use over and over again.

How much is Eat Your Math Homework?

You can currently purchase Eat Your Math Homework for only $7.95.

That is a wonderful price in my opinion.

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Tuesday, December 03, 2013

National Cookie Day & FREE Recipe Binder Printables

Did you know that December 4 is National Cookie Day?

What a great day to make cookies. I mean everyday is a great day to make cookies, but now I have a reason to actually make them and ~~devour~~ eat them if I so please. :) I'm posting this a day early, so those of us that have to plan ahead and purchase, can do so. I sure don't have the things at home to make a day out of baking, so I will be making a store run later on. We are going to research our favorite cookie recipes. I'm pretty sure I found the mother load of cookie recipes. You can Click Here to see the huge list.

I also learned something pretty neat today. Did you know that the English word "cookie" is derived from the Dutch word "koekje," which means little cake? Pretty Cool!

We are also going to be working on our recipe binder. Adding to it and organizing it a bit. I love having a recipe binder and I'll tell you why. The other day I was running late on making it home and my husband calls and says "Honey, I'm going to make supper." I'm thinking that is pretty wonderful! He then says he would make a certain meal, if he knew how. Yep, that's when I respond "Oh, it's in the recipe binder." :) Saved by the binder.

Click Here to Download Our FREE Cookie Recipe Printable.

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Saturday, October 08, 2011

Kitchen Helper

Wanna teach your children Language, Reading, Math, and Science in the Kitchen?

Let them help you cook!

I'm learning to make the most of this everyday teaching opportunity. Not only are you spending quality time, but your child is also learning. I'm sure, like me, you could also use the extra help. ;)

A few weeks ago, after making cupcakes, we cut out the box and placed it on the side of our refrigerator. I did this so the girls would learn to read the words and remember them. A great learning to read strategy.

Today my oldest asked to make brownies. Yummy! It was fine by me. I watched as she read what she would be needing and gathered all the materials up. Great bonding and learning time and the brownies smelled and tasted Delicious!