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Activity 1: Lime juice is one simple drink your little one can prepare on her own provided she knows how much of each ingredient she needs to add. You can explain to her that to prepare one glass of lemon juice, she will need to squeeze the juice from one lemon into one glass of water and add two tablespoons of sugar to it. You can gradually ask her to prepare two glasses of lime juice and explain the need to proportionately increase the quantity of lime extract and sugar. How it will help: Teaching through visual representation is a great way to introduce preschoolers to concepts of addition and subtraction. This activity will also help improve your child's basic counting skills. 2. Basic number concepts Smuggle some maths fun into the kitchen with lovely teacher-made resources like this printable activity grid. Perfect to keep the wee ones engaged and challenged at home, this material is aimed at First Level learners. Paul Halmos, a Hungarian Jewish mathematician known for simplifying complicated mathematical concepts, once famously said, "The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics."

There are lots of kitchen tools that support this, such as, weighting scales, pipettes, different measuring spoons, or jugs with readable measurements.They’ll find out that different volumes take up different amounts of space, and that items like scoops, cups, or bowls hold either more, or not as much, than they originally thought. Mathematics is inextricably tied to our daily lives. Where would we be without a concept of time or money or knowing how to mix the right portions of milk, sugar, and tea leaves to get us our daily cup of tea? Yet, we often make the mistake of restricting maths problems to abstract sums in school textbooks. When children learn to use mathematics in daily life, they also learn computation, problem-solving and critical thinking skills simultaneously. No matter if you're looking for fun maths activity ideas for home learning or just like to have children practise maths at home after school, we've got you covered! What's more, you don't need expensive teaching equipment or lab kits to teach maths and science to your children. From buying groceries to organizing the pantry by storing items in containers of various sizes and measuring portions for kid-friendly recipes, children can learn about various mathematical concepts in the comfort of your kitchen. This way, children see how they use maths in everyday life for doing the simplest of calculations and recognize its importance. Nine interesting ways you can teach maths to your child in the kitchen For Preschoolers While shopping for groceries:This lovely kitchen role play ideas collection shows you some of the ways that maths exploration and vocabulary can be encouraged in the Kitchen Role Play Area. The ideas are all simple and easy to set up and require many items that you will already have in your setting. Children can explore the different areas of maths as they play, or an adult can encourage the children to solve problems and use mathematical vocabulary through discussions and modelling. How it helps: Calculating the number of calories in the food they eat, will not only reinforce maths skills but also make them understand the importance of avoiding junk food and eating a balanced diet. Make sure you have a calorie requirement chart along with calories found in different food groups available, for reference.

Kitchen role-play ideas are a great way of incorporating different areas of learning and development. This particular resource encourages mathematics. It gives you a list of different activities that can be carried out in this area of provision. For example, you can place a number of cupcake covers out and ask children to fill in a specific number with play dough as their ingredient! Another example of how to encourage numerical based role-play is to create shopping lists that have the quantity writeen out. Ask them to write how many bananas are needed for four people! Resources like this maths kitchen role play ideas one We’ve got a number of maths kitchen role play ideas and activities. This is alongside general kitchen role-pay ideas and activities, too, which can be used for things like sensory or literacy purposes. How it helps: Taking proportionate portions of different ingredients and mixing them will help children grasp the concept of ratios, proportions, and mixed numbers. 4. Calculating timeThese mud kitchen role play ideas and sand kitchen role-play ideas are also great for using alongside your continuous provision! To build on numeracy, try this butterflies doubling worksheet and this fruit salad addition sheet! How can these kitchen role play ideas benefit maths learning? There is a lot of maths involved when shopping for food and kitchen items. We must estimate costs, plan for meals and stay within the budget while buying groceries. 1. Basic number concepts

This useful resource will help make the wee ones realise just how important and practical maths is outside the classroom. How else can I spice up maths in the kitchen?Kitchen role play ideas can be simple and cost-effective, since you can use all sorts of kitchen household objects.Where children have their very own kitchen tools to use, they can gain lots of independence and self-confidence, which can help with their learning progression. The activity: A fun way to introduce measurement concepts to small children is by involving them in a fun activity like making chapattis. You can ask your child to add two cups of flour into a bowl while counting aloud—"One, two". Then let him add 10 tablespoons of water to the flour while saying the numbers from 1 to 10 out loud. Let your child knead the dough and roll it into balls. You can then ask him to count the number of dough balls he has and how many chapattis he can make out of them. Children can understand the different tools they can use for mathematical concepts, and become more sure of themselves regarding how to use them. They’ll learn that some tools work for certain aspects of maths, whereas others don’t.Children can learn all about things like volume, weight, and measure, whilst understanding the concept of capacity and perception. How it helps: While playing with dough is fun, it also has the added benefit of teaching your child to measure the number of ingredients required to prepare the dough. 3. Understanding shapes How it helps: Routinely weighing items using a kitchen scale will sharpen your child's skills in estimating weights and learning about the various units of weight measurement. 3. Ratios and proportions

Explore other teacher-made resources that'll fill the wee ones' heads with numbers, shapes, signs and more. See our recommendations below: The activity: Older kids can help you with measuring the weight of the ingredients required to make their favorite dish. Often recipes call for weighing the ingredients in terms of grams, pounds, or ounces. If you have a digital weighing scale in the kitchen, it is easy for your child to practically weigh the ingredients in different units and hand them over to you. The activity: There are many activities in the kitchen that involve measuring time intervals. For example, if you are baking a cake in a microwave, you can set the cake pan inside and ask your child to set the time and temperature.

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In terms of literacy, these Kitchen Word Cards make an excellent addition to your kitchen role-play ideas. Alongside real materials, use these cards to introduce word and picture association and enhance their vocabulary by adding these new kitchen words to their repertoire.