Math is Real Life: Tart Time
It’s the first Wednesday of October, and I am joining some other great teachers out there for the Math IS Real Life!! link up hosted by Miss Math Dork. The idea is that we show how we use math in our real lives.
As my regular readers know, I love to cook and aspire to be a chef (well, really only in my own kitchen, I would never survive restaurant hours. Anyway, this past week we were having friends over, and I made two tarts: a lemon tart and a dark chocolate raspberry tart.
For the volume:
the 9" tart pan volume = 63.62 inches squared
the 5.5" tart pan volume = 23.76 inches squared
23.76/63.62 = .38 So, really I needed only a little more than 1/3 of the filling and with the raspberries not changing in size, I calculated the volume of the filling to be 1/3 of the original recipe. This worked great, and I had very little filling (or tart) left over.
Check out other great ideas for math in real-life with the link from Miss Math Dork.
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