Busy Days
Now that school and TAFE have started it seems like the days fly by. Once Anika gets going on uni in a couple of weeks it will really speed along.
My brain seems to be switching onto maths at any opportunity lately. Whilst Aussifying a recipe for the other blog I was wondering about how much a 'square' of US chocolate weighed. I've seen recipes that call for 3 squares of chocolate and have often wondered how much this was. I was thinking that in Australia chocolate comes in squares, rectangles and circles but the size depends on the brand. Then I realised that to talk in squares, rectangles and circles is mathematically unsound. After all, they are rectangular prisms or cubes or cylinders of chocolate. I'm teaching 3 dimensional shapes to Mike so I'd better not confuse the issue. At least chocolate tastes the same no matter how it is shaped :)
Meanwhile Mike is demonstrating his new knowledge of the ancient world. When asked by his grandmother if the cunieform writing on the clay tablet he had made was Egyptian writing Mike took on a superior air and said, "Grandma, the Egyptians wrote in heiroglyphics." I guess he's been listening.
My brain seems to be switching onto maths at any opportunity lately. Whilst Aussifying a recipe for the other blog I was wondering about how much a 'square' of US chocolate weighed. I've seen recipes that call for 3 squares of chocolate and have often wondered how much this was. I was thinking that in Australia chocolate comes in squares, rectangles and circles but the size depends on the brand. Then I realised that to talk in squares, rectangles and circles is mathematically unsound. After all, they are rectangular prisms or cubes or cylinders of chocolate. I'm teaching 3 dimensional shapes to Mike so I'd better not confuse the issue. At least chocolate tastes the same no matter how it is shaped :)
Meanwhile Mike is demonstrating his new knowledge of the ancient world. When asked by his grandmother if the cunieform writing on the clay tablet he had made was Egyptian writing Mike took on a superior air and said, "Grandma, the Egyptians wrote in heiroglyphics." I guess he's been listening.
posted by Mrs Q @ 2:23 AM
1 Comments:
At March 2, 2010 at 9:35 AM ,
Amelia Antwiler said...
I never thought about it. But you're right. Chocolate is yummy no matter what size.
it's not the weight of the chocolate square - it's the size. most baker's chocolate around here is roughly universal. it comes in rectangles that are cut in symmetrical squares.
It's the candy chocolate that's different.
I am not looking forward to teaching the kids volume. LOL
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