Tuesday, February 9, 2016

Chocolate raspberry (heart-shaped) cake

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Students calculate base area or volume of cakes made from 2 cake pan sizes and observe how the volume of the cake changes with the increased pan size.  This is an activity intended to demonstrate that the volume increase is not linear.  Volume expansion would be cubed if all dimensions of the cake were enlarged but in this case (since we didn’t increase cake depth) only two dimensions are enlarged.

The activity: ChocolateRaspberryHeartCake.pdf

CCSS: 7.G.B.4, 7.G.B.6, 7.RP.A, 7.EE.B, 8.G.C.9, HSG.GMD.A.3, HSG.MG.A.1, HSN.Q.A, HSA.CED.A.1

For members we have an editable Word docx, our Excel computations, and solutions:

ChocolateRaspberryHeartCake.docx     HeartCake.xlsx     cake-solution.pdf


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For more Valentines day activities try some of these: Valentine’s activities

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And for Presidents Day why not look at the step function of Presidents pay

from Yummy Math http://www.yummymath.com/2016/chocolate-raspberry-heart-shaped-cake/


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