Naturalist

Naturalist people love to be out in the fresh air and love to play outside. They also learn well with real life situations such as baking. This is why we chose a recipe and a word problem involving trees for our examples.

Recipes Use Fractions!

Cookie Dough:

- 2 1/4 cups of flour

- 1 teaspoons of baking soda

- 1/2 teaspoons of salt

- 1 1/2 teaspoons of cornstarch

- 1/2 stick of melted butter

- 3/4 cup of brown sugar

- 1/2 cup of white sugar

- 1 whole egg

- 1 egg yolk

- 2 teaspoons of vanilla extract

- 1 cup of chocolate chunks

FOREST FRACTIONS!

A forest has 1000 trees. 1/4 of them are Oak. 1/4 of them are Spruce. 1/8 of them are Pine. How many Elm trees are there, if the rest of them are Elm?

To answer this problem...

1: 1/4 of 1000 is 250

So, there is 250 Oak, and 250 Spruce which is 500 trees

2: 1/8 of 1000 is 125

So, there is 125 Pine trees

3: 250+250+125=625 trees out of 1000

4: 1000-625=375 Elm trees

Therefore, you have 375 Elm trees out of 1000, which equals 3/8

In fraction form, this looks like...

1/4 (Oak) + 1/4 (Spruce) + 1/8 (Pine) + 3/8 (Elm) = 1 whole forest