Ratios, proportions, and algebraic thinking for sixth grade students.
Cooking is full of ratios! Whether you’re making a smoothie or baking cookies, you need to balance ingredients.
To double a recipe, multiply each ingredient by 2. To halve it, divide by 2. Ratios make sure everything tastes right!
If the original recipe uses 2 eggs for every 3 cups of flour, keeping that ratio the same is the secret to success.
Professional chefs use ratios to invent new dishes and scale up recipes for big events!
You want to make a punch that serves twice as many people, so you double all the ingredients, keeping the original ratios.
A lemonade recipe calls for 1 cup of sugar for every 4 cups of water. If you want to make 8 cups of lemonade, you use 2 cups of sugar.