How Chefs Use Math
by Rjf PublishingEdition: 1st
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2009-10-01
Publisher(s): Facts on File
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Summary
In sports and in spaceflight, in cooking and in aerial combat, whether designing clothes or designing the latest video game-people in the real world are using math every day to do exciting and important work. These lively, colorful books will help you understand how math skills are essential in just about any career.
Table of Contents
| The Business of Cooking | p. 4 |
| Kitchen Math | p. 6 |
| Cooking Supplies | p. 8 |
| Buying the Food | p. 10 |
| What to Cook? | p. 12 |
| Customers! | p. 14 |
| The Restaurant Staff | p. 16 |
| Money In and Out | p. 18 |
| Starting a Restaurant | p. 20 |
| A Day in the Life of a Chef | p. 22 |
| Personal Chefs | p. 24 |
| Caterers | p. 26 |
| If You Want to Be a Chef | p. 28 |
| Answer Key | p. 29 |
| Glossary | p. 30 |
| To Learn More | p. 31 |
| Index | p. 32 |
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Excerpts
If you have ever eaten food at a restaurant, had someone cook for you, or cooked something yourself, you have seen math in action. How Chefs Use Mathdemonstrates how chefs use math to measure, prepare, and cook to create tasty, delicious food.Concepts and skills emphasized include:
- Number Sense and Operations
- Problem Solving
- Estimation
- Measurement
- Data Analysis
- Algebraic Thinking
- Geometry and Spatial Sense.
Excerpted from How Chefs Use Math by Sheri Arroyo
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