Baking Beautifully


Source: Lernert & Sander X de Volkskrant

Type: Investigation

Theme: Life Skills

Grades: 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

Learning Target: Students will learn about algorithms and create artistic mathematical patterns by baking, cooking, or arranging food.

Instructions

Students may work in groups of two or three for this project (food is to be shared together!). They will create artistic mathematical patterns by baking, cooking, or arranging food.

What to Submit

One Word document or PowerPoint:

  1. Brainstorming (sketches and notes) for one dish. Artistic food may be baked, cooked, or arranged.
  2. Obtain a Peer Review before producing final recipe.
  3. List of ingredients
  4. Recipe
  5. Photographs (minimum of 3) of the final bake, salad, meal, or culinary presentation.

Example

SCAD Code for 3D Cross-sections (Extension)

Demonstrate how primitive shapes can be sliced in various ways to produce interesting patterns and cross-sections. Use OpenSCAD code provided.

https://teacher.desmos.com/activitybuilder/custom/641878a1b48bd1ce394a9dce

//Uncomment the primitive prisms below to see how cross-sections are affected. Adjust the variables below to rotate and translate the slices.
//Rotate with values up to 90 (degrees)
rotation = 84.8;
//Translate with values up to 20
translation=0;
intersection(){
rotate([rotation,0,0])translate([0,0,translation-25])color([255,0,0,1]) cube([50,50,50],center=true);

#
//cylinder
//cylinder(h=20, r=10, center=true);

//cone
cylinder(h=15, r1=10, r2=0, center=true,$fn=100);

//sphere
//sphere( r=10 ,$fn=100);

//pyramid
//rotate([0,0,45]) cylinder(20,20,00,center=true,$fn=4);

//torus
//rotate_extrude(convexity = 10, $fn = 100) translate([10, 0, 0]) circle(r = 5, $fn = 100);

//helix
//linear_extrude(height = 30, center = true, convexity = 10, twist = 720, $fn = 100) translate([2, 0, 0]) circle(r = 1);

}
rotate([rotation,0,0])translate([0,0,translation])color([1,.7,.7,.1]) cube([50,50,.01],center=true);
Exit Ticket
CCSS Math Practice
  • I can attend to precision.
  • I can look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.
NGSS Crosscutting Concepts
  • Patterns
  • Scale, Proportion, and Quantity
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