Tuesday, July 21, 2015

Math to Soothe the Foodie's Heart







The inevitable side effect of being a foodie is that it slips into every part of your life. Especially when you are a Math lover and a food lover, you will definitely notice how food allegories will slip into your teaching techniques. Remember all the problems that start with that strange person called Frank who had 50 billion apples and had to give away 2/59ths of it? Remember all my lectures about how you can teach addition and subtraction using Cheez-Its? It comes with the territory.

A quick google shows that I’m not the first one to have such brilliant crossover ideas (unfortunately!) but some of them put my ideas to shame. Look at these beauties.



Venn Diagram Pizza – Bacon and mushroom on the Left, Red Pepper on the right, flavor explosion bang in the middle!



Menger Sponge Cake – Cubes cut from cubes cut from cubes



Candy Corn Sierpinski Triangle – A triangle within a triangle within a triangle?



Pythagorean Crackers – Triangles are my favorite shape



And my personal favorite, Dodecahedron Apples – A polygon with 12 flat faces

Which ones do you like? 

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