What does it take to make an apple pie?
A lot of math!
So we began by having a "question storming" session:
- How many people?
- How many pies?
- How many pieces will each person have?
- How many slices will each pie have?
- How big will the pieces be?
- How many apples will we need?
- How will we measure an apple?
- What other ingredients will we need? How much?
Over the next few days we did the math:
- counting how many people
- deciding how big each piece would be and deciding to divide the pie into 8 pieces
- doing the addition/multiplication and figuring that we would need 3 pies
- estimating how many apples
- cutting up a few apples (from our playground!), measuring them and getting a more accurate number
- multiplying all the ingredients by 3 using measuring utensils and rice to know how much we would need
A sampling of our mathematical thinking:
And then we were ready:
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| Washing the apples |
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| Measuring the flour |
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| Measuring the sugar |
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| Measuring and cutting the butter |
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| Slicing the apples |
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| Making the crust |
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| Our apples were small. It took a lot of apples! |
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| Filling the pie and putting on the crumble |
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| Pie 1 |
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Pie 2
Pie 3 |
Hot out of the oven:
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| If we cut it in half, how many pieces will we have? |
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How many times do I have to cut it to make 8 pieces?
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And now for the best part!
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