"Whether you prefer pasta hot or cold, with red sauce or butter, this book has a recipe for everyone! It also incorporates achievable math content straight from math curricula in the form of word problems that ask readers to take their skills in the classroom and bring them into the kitchen. With four recipes young chefs and mathematicians can try with minimal help from an adult, this book brings STEM into the real world, supporting the notion that...

"This exciting book makes you a math problem solver by putting you into situations faced by people who work in construction. Math is an important part of many jobs involved in building structures. Three exciting stories lead to a problem you must solve using math. A toolbox section helps take you through similar examples and provides math exercises you can do that will help give you a better understanding of how to solve the problem in the story."--publisher....

What makes a salad, a salad? Does it have to have lettuce? Could it have a bean or corn base? This book broadens readers' understanding of just what this healthy staple can be made of while using the four recipes as a jumping off point to practice math skills. Word problems based on each recipe ask readers to use topics from the classroom and bring them to the kitchen, including measuring, addition, subtraction, and more. Readers can check their work...

Understanding place value is the key to comprehending large numbers and to learning strategies to easily add and subtract such numbers. In this fun book, readers will practice place value skills presented by the monsters called ogres! Delightful illustrations and intriguing folklore fact boxes accompany the achievable text. Readers will also answer math problems throughout the motivating volume, allowing them to assess their understanding of the critical...