Math U See Cake Recipe

Kelly’ granddaughter, Hailey is 4 yo and her favorite math activity is making a cake. While she isn’t officially in Primer she is well on her way. As you will see when you read her cake recipe, she already as some math mastery just from playing and talking to granny about it.

I asked her for the recipe.

Math-U-See Big Red Cake with Designer Frosting 

First you make the cake by stacking ALL the red ones on top of each other.

There are different ways to make the frosting and this is the method used for the design in the picture:

First you put as many blues (5’s) as possible around the outer edge. There will not be enough room to finish the edge in blue  so you will need to fill in with pink. Put the remaining blues on the inside top.

On the inside edge add 2 of the 2’s followed by 8 greens

At this point fill in with the rest of the pink  because it is important to use as many pink as possible before running out of room because a princess always uses pink.

There was a spot just right for a yellow. When asked what size would fit in there Hailey immediately said “Four”!!! Who hoo good job Hailey you have mastery! When you get to the lesson on solving for the unknown it will be a piece of cake for you!

Add 3 more 2’s and finish it off with 1 green.

Serves as 1 math lesson and a whole lot of fun.

Hailey sometimes call the blocks by color and other times by number.  Granny can be proud of how well she and Hailey are progressing in their maths!

Hailey will be checking in. So please leave her a comment.

Thanks

Sue