Irving hosted its annual Family Math Night tonight. This year's theme was messy math. L and I went and took our secret weapon - B - who solved all the problems in record time without even writing them down. We were done within 15 minutes.
Tonight's challenge was to solve the math problems to determine the right amount of ingredients. For example: You need 12/16+7/8-3/9 cups of sugar. B immediately answered 1 1/4 cups. Hmmm. It went on like that throughout the entire ingredient list. 9x1/4 c. of flour? Oh, that's 2 1/4 cups. Grr. After solving all the ingredients amounts, you went to a table to measure the ingredients into a plastic storage bag so you can make the recipe at home. Interestingly, they only had 1/4 measuring cups on the table. And for the teaspoon amounts, you had to use only 1/8 t. measure.
All the while B was solving the math problems and figuring out the ingerdients at the table, L was nursing a blister. She wanted me to make more doughnuts for her class' Breakfast with a Book tomorrow morning and accidently touched the doughnut maker. We were halfway to the school when I noticed she had her hand still wrapped in a dish towel.
Our prize for finishing was to make a dirt cup - smashed Oreos on top of a Snak-Pak pudding with a couple of gummy worms. Yummy.
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