"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...

"Snacks can be as simple as a cheese stick or as complicated as ants on a log or chocolate chip cookies. Readers can try out four different snack recipes using this book and a little help from an adult as well as hone their math skills in the real world of their kitchen. Each recipe is paired with a word problem using measuring, addition, subtraction, and more. Written especially for young readers, each problem contains clue words and other achievable...