Cooking with Kids: Maths Skills

lifeatthezoo | December 19, 2013 | Cooking with Kids, Education, Parenting | No Comments

A super quick post about the benefits of cooking with kids! As you know, I am a great advocate of learning through play and learning without even realising that you are learning! We have been doing a lot of baking for kids recently. I always use this as an opportunity to sneak in some learning. I tell them the ingredients – and ask “what do we need for cookies”? And they usually guess about half.

Then I talk to them about the amount we need… a 100 grams of.. what does a 100 look like? How many zeros? What does a 125 grams look like.

We get out the scales and measure. I show them the numbers and we look to get to a 100. Is a 101 ok too?

So after our I turned my back to put the cookies in the oven.. The kids started running backwards and forwards, giggling away. I turned round.. and..

I saw this:

Bless them. They were getting all their toys and weighing them. They were seeing what weighed the most and what weighed the least. Brilliant. Great kids.