Instructions to make one cup of hot chocolate.

YOU WILL NEED:

•4 spoons of hot chocolate powder

•1 spoon of sugar

•50mls of milk

•50mls of hot water.

•1 big cup and a sprinkle of cocoa powder.

Your Friend pops in as you are making the hot chocolate so you make 2 cups………… what do we need now?

4 spoons of hot chocolate powder

1 spoon of sugar

50mls of milk

50mls of hot water.

1 big cup and a sprinkle of cocoa powder.

+4 spoons of hot chocolate powder

1 spoon of sugar

50mls of milk

50mls of hot water.

1 big cup and a sprinkle of cocoa powder.

Guess what? the door bell rings – 5 people now want Hot chocolate. How can we work this one out ? What do we need to make 5 cups?

5 x 4 spoons of Hot chocolate powder

5 x 1 spoon of sugar

5 x 50mls of milk

5 x 50mls of hot water

5 x 1 cup and 5 sprinkles of cocoa powder.

What Maths operation did we use to make this problem easy to understand?

+ ? x ?

So lets look at this math problem…….

We know to make 1 cup of hot chocolate you need: 4 spoons of hot chocolate powder

1 spoon of sugar

50mls of milk

50mls of hot water.

1 big cup and a sprinkle of cocoa powder.

We now need 5 cups of chocolate.

What operation do we need to use then to work out this math problem?

Did you guess it needs to be X

- we need to times everything by 5 to make 5 cups.

So 5 x 4 spoons =

5 x 1 spoon =

5 x 50 mls =

5 x 50mls =

5 x sprinkle =

20 spoons of chocolate powder

5 spoons of sugar

250 mls of milk

250 mls of hot water

5 sprinkles of cocoa powder

Five lovely cups of Hot chocolate for you and your friends.

Can you work out how much you need for six cups?

And now 10 cups?