Are you looking for a way to increase your children’s skills in math? There is no other place to teach them than in the kitchen. In addition to teaching math skills, cooking also teaches reading, science and independence. Unlike books and worksheets, when you are finished with your work, you can eat it. Math is all over the kitchen. There are servings to calculate, ingredients to measure, temperatures to set, cooking times, pan sizes and a host of multiplication and fractions.

You can even get help in the kitchen from children as young as two or three. It is best, however to have all of your equipment, utensils and ingredients laid out for easy access when working with younger children. Use the biggest bowl you have when teaching children to mix to avoid flying batter. Children of this age may be too young to help with the fractions on the measuring cup, but they can help you count out the eggs for the mix.

There are several books on cooking with children available at your local library. Look for children’s cookbooks for age appropriate recipes.

Your children will have so much fun helping you in the kitchen and learning to cook, that they will not even notice that they are working on their math skills as well.