Cooking
provides wonderful opportunities to help your child learn mathematical
vocabulary. How better to learn phrases like 'more than' or 'less than' than by
weighing out ingredients. Let your child feel a 1kg bag of sugar to feel how heavy it
is. He or she could also feel other packages to help to develop estimation
skills.
Your child will gain experience in counting and recognizing numbers. If decorations are to be added to cakes, let your child add a specific number and counting opportunities can arise while setting the table. Through the use of different cutters, children can learn the names of various 2D shapes. You can discuss how many corners or sides these shapes have so that children will learn the properties of many shapes. Your child can learn about timing too.
Your child will gain experience in counting and recognizing numbers. If decorations are to be added to cakes, let your child add a specific number and counting opportunities can arise while setting the table. Through the use of different cutters, children can learn the names of various 2D shapes. You can discuss how many corners or sides these shapes have so that children will learn the properties of many shapes. Your child can learn about timing too.
We had so much fun mixing, pouring, and stirring our ingredients for our bread. We even got to break an egg! We made yummy pumpkin bread!
We made banana bread!
Yummy!
