Santana Hunt

"How much flour does a cookie recipe need? What if you double the recipe? With this book, simple word problems encourage readers to consider the many ways math is used in the kitchen to make delicious desserts. They'll use math strategies and knowledge acquired in the classroom to solve each problem and check their work against a concluding answer key. Including four recipes that readers can make themselves or with just a little help from an adult,...

"Whether you prefer pasta hot or cold, with red sauce or butter, this book has a recipe for everyone. It also incorporates achievable math content straight from math curricula in the form of word problems that ask readers to take their skills in the classroom and bring them into the kitchen. With four recipes young chefs and mathematicians can try with minimal help from an adult, this book brings STEM into the real world, supporting the notion that...

"Soups often contain meat and vegetables, but readers will be surprised to learn that soups can have fruit too. Readers expand their expectations of soup with four great, different recipes they can make with limited assistance from an adult. Each fosters independence in the kitchen and culinary curiosity, as well as helps readers apply math to the real world. Each recipe is accompanied by a word problem that uses skills from the math curriculum, including...