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You have 3 bags of flour. Each bag weighs 4 pounds. How many pounds of flour do you have altogether?
12 pounds of flour
You need ¾ cup of milk, but your measuring cup only shows ¼-cup increments. How many ¼ cups do you need?
3
You are making brownies for a school event. The recipe makes 12 brownies, but 30 students want one. How many batches should you make?
3 batches
A student needs ½ cup of oil but accidentally uses ½ tablespoon. Did they use too much or too little?
Too little
½ cup = 8 tablespoons
7 1/2 cups
A pizza recipe makes 4 servings and uses:
How much of each ingredient would you need to make 8 servings?
Flour: 4 cups
Cheese: 2 cups
Sauce: 1 cup
You need 1¾ cups of sugar, but you only have a ½-cup measuring cup. How many full scoops will you need, and how much more?
3½ scoops of a ½-cup measuring cup
½ + ½ + ½ = 1½
Plus ¼ cup = 1¾ cups
So: 3½ scoops
A student is making a recipe that requires 1½ cups of flour. They use a ¼-cup measuring cup. How many scoops do they need?
1½ cups ÷ ¼ cup = 6 scoops
How many 1/3 cups is equal to 2 2/3 cups?
8 2/3 cups
You have $15 to buy ingredients for cookies. Flour costs $3.25, sugar costs $2.50, butter costs $4.75, and chocolate chips cost $3.50. Can you afford everything? How much money will you have left?
Yes, $1.00 left
A recipe requires 2 cups of rice and serves 4 people. You are cooking for 10 people. How many cups of rice will you need?
5 cups of rice
2 cups serves 4 people.
10 ÷ 4 = 2.5
2 × 2.5 = 5 cups of rice
A recipe calls for 3 tablespoons of butter, but the student only has a teaspoon. How many teaspoons of butter do they need?
1 tablespoon = 3 teaspoons
3 tablespoons × 3 = 9 teaspoons
Convert 6 teaspoons into tablespoons.
A cookie recipe makes 12 cookies and calls for ¾ cup of sugar. How much sugar would you need to make 24 cookies?
1½ cups of sugar
You are making spaghetti for 8 people. The recipe calls for 2 cups of pasta sauce and 1 pound of pasta for 4 people.
Pasta sauce: 4 cups
Pasta: 2 pounds
A cake recipe calls for 2½ cups of flour. A student accidentally adds 2¼ cups.
Too little
2½ − 2¼ = ¼ cup more
Your recipe says to bake something for 45 minutes. You put it in the oven at 3:20 PM. What time should you check it?
4:05 PM
Convert 8 tablespoons into cups
1/2 cups
You are making pancakes for your family. The recipe calls for 1¾ cups of flour to make 10 pancakes. You want to make 30 pancakes.
Flour: 5¼ cups
¼-cup scoops: 21 scoops
A cookie recipe calls for ¾ cup of butter. A student only has a ¼-cup measuring cup and says they only need to use it 2 times. Is the student correct?
No