Chocolate Math

Chocolate and Math?  Can it get any better than this?
(Yes, add coffee) 

Of course, when the Jedi's Sis got word that chocolate was involved she insisted we wait to do this lesson until after she got home.

We've been working on fraction and today we were dividing them.  I have to confess, everyone in our household loves math.  I know that sounds strange.  We were dividing fractions and I found this lesson in my teacher's guide for Horizon's Math 6.

We started with 2 chocolate bars.  Supposing we were baking a pie that requires 2/3 of a chocolate bar, how many pies can we make out of 2 whole bars?

Understanding dividing fractions using reciprocals is a lot easier when food is involved...

So, we know we need 2/3 of a bar per pie so our equation is going to look something like this:

2 ÷ 2/3 = 2 x 3/2 (reciprocal) = 2/1 x 3/2 = 6/2 (now we reduce) = 3

We can make 3 pies out of these 2 chocolate bars!  Woo-hoo!  Who's mouth is watering???  I wish I had a recipe for a pie that only took 2/3 of a chocolate bar.  Doesn't sound like it would have all that many calories, or all that much chocolate flavor now that I think about it.

Once our little math demo was complete we decided to pull out the old solar pizza box oven and fire up the grill...er sun.

Before:

After:

Mmmm, math never tasted so good!