Practical Applications
## Math in the Kitchen
Cooking is a yummy way to use multiplication and division! Recipes often ask you to double or halve the ingredients.
## Ways to Use Recipe Math
- Multiply to double a recipe (2 × each ingredient).
- Divide to make a smaller batch.
## Tasty Results
Math helps you bake enough cupcakes for the whole class or just a few for your family!
Examples
- A recipe needs 3 eggs, but you want to make twice as much. You use \(3 \times 2 = 6\) eggs.
- You have a recipe for 12 cookies, but you only want 6, so you use half of each ingredient.