Kitchen Math Lessons
Posted By Jacque on November 10, 2009
Hannah asked me last week on Wednesday if she could please make me some brownies. My first answer was that I wasn’t sure, and she said she would really like to, and she would clean up the kitchen so she could do that. She is only 9, and she was so happy to come up with the idea, so how could I resist!?
She went downstairs, worked hard to clean it all up and started making the brownie batch. A little while later, though, she came up to me with the bowl of the brownie batch, and such a sad, disappointed look on her face. I asked her what was wrong. She told me that she had added in two cups of flour instead of 2/3 of a cup. She was so dismayed and disappointed when she realized what she did….
Here she had cleaned the whole kitchen so she could make them, and they weren’t even going to turn out.
I told her to go downstairs, write down all the ingredients and their measurements and we would work out how much she has over-added the flour. What she had done was to triple the recipe of flour.
We sat and looked at the amount of flour she used, compared to how much she needed. (Boy, was I glad it came out so even!) We then went through and tripled the other amounts and figured out how much more of each ingredient she needed to add.
Ugh! Not that I didn’t want three times the amount of brownies, but that meant 1 1/2c. of cocoa!!
What a blessing to be able to take the time to show her this. Oh, how it made my heart happy to see how relieved she was that she could finish making her brownies! It is a joy to be here to help my daughter, to walk with her in the good and the bad, to hold her hand and lift her heart as I teach her something so simple as math.
I am so blessed by these small things. I am so blessed that truly everything is a Living Learning Moment in our home!!
blessings~
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That’s a sweet story … thanks for sharing!
To the KING be all the glory!
Rebekah
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You’re such an encouragment Jacque! Hope you’re getting plenty of rest inbetween brownie making episodes
~Kendra
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Precious . . . and great job hannah!!!!!
i’m sure the brownies were YUMMY!!!!!! 
hope you are getting some rest jacque . . . Hugs & blessings 
misty
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Hannah is becoming such a Young Lady. It’s so wonderful to hear about how she is beginning to mature into a “Keeper at Home”
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It sounds like she did wonderful! Those moments are my most favorite of all.
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What a great teaching moment! This is a great example of what I call Life is Therapy. I added a link to this post in my blog post today.
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That’s so sweet! Poor girl, thinking she’d ruined the whole thing!
My family has screwed up brownies so many times that it’s quite hilarious. We still poke fun at my brother-in-law for trying to wing it on the recipe once, wow that was gross…
I’m glad this one was fixable. It always makes me sad when little ones are disappointed like that.
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Thanks for posting about my brownies! I used the link on my blog! You can look here: http://dixonhomestead.com/hannah/?p=641. Well, I have some other things to do!
Love,
Miss Hannah
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