LAUSD IMaST Digital Video Resource Library Utilization Guide

California Middle School Mathematics Concepts and Skills:
Course 1

Chapter 3: Fractions and Their Operations
Futures Channel Movie

#4014, The Head Chef - The head chef is responsible for everything that happens in the kitchen--and for everything that comes out of it.
Chapter Engagement

Ask students to name some of the mathematical ideas or skills that they think a chef might need to know.  Accept answers, and ask them to look for more as they watch Futures Channel Movie #4014,  “The Head Chef”.  In subsequent discussion, elicit or point out some of these math applications:

  • Measuring amounts in fractions
  • Adding and subtracting fractions
  • Multiplying fractions
Discuss problem #1 in the movie guide and guide students to understand that the solution to the problem involves the operation of multiplication.  Ask students to think of other examples in which addition, subtraction or multiplication of fractions would be needed to prepare and serve a meal.
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