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Baking Cookies Lesson PlanBaking Cookies Lesson Plan
Publisher
Illustrative Mathematics
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5th - 7th
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Math
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Duration
15 mins
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Baking Cookies

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You can never have enough cookies, but do you have enough ingredients? This activity allows your bakers to discover how many batches of cookies they can make with the ingredients provided. Also useable as an independent assignment, your learners will practice adding and dividing fractions in order to make a decision on their cookie outcome. 

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CCSS: Designed

Concepts

dividing fractions, division

Additional Tags

divide fractions, math

Pros

  • Activity used in real life
  • Can be used in groups or individually

Cons

  • Learners need prior knowledge of adding and dividing with fractions

Common Core

6.NS.A.1 MP4

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