Eat Your Math Homework: Recipes for Hungry Minds

This collection of recipes and math facts invites young readers into the kitchen to explore mathematical ideas. It opens with an introduction to kitchen safety, then presents a main text covering concepts such as probability, Fibonacci numbers, tessellations, and variability, followed by six kid-friendly recipes. The recipes include Fibonacci Snack Sticks, Variable Pizza Pi, and Milk and Tangram Cookies, several of which come with additional food activities. Each dish is paired with explanations of the mathematics behind it, so that patterns in nature, geometry, and number sequences show up in everyday cooking. The book is written for readers roughly seven to ten years old and is intended for use at home or in the classroom.