Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Everyday Math for 12-31-08

Today was pancake day. The recipe is fairly simple but small for our family. To make enough for everyone, we quadruple (times 4) the recipe.

Most of it is pretty straight forward, 1 cup becomes 4 cups, and so on.

But 8 teaspoons of something can be tedious to measure and error accumulate easier with 8 spoonfuls than with 2 or 3.

So it makes sense to convert teaspoons to tablespoons when there is a lot of them. There are 3 teaspoons in 1 tablespoon, so therefore there are 2 tablespoons plus 2 teaspoons in 8 teaspoons. (8 divided by 3 is 2 with 2 teaspoons left over).

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