ABSTRACT
Since modern science and technology is increasingly based on calculation, calculation skills have to be developed during education. Culinary practice is useful because processes performed in the kitchen go along with physical or chemical changes that can be investigated quantitatively using simple physical and chemical knowledge. Sometimes the rejection of math is at the root of weakness in calculation. Some students do not understand why the mathematics is interesting, and they would prefer to see how the mathematical concepts will be useful before learning them. A teacher of mathematics has a great opportunity. If he fills his allotted time with drilling his students in routine operations, he kills their interests, hampers their intellectual development, and misuses his opportunity. But if he challenges the curiosity of his students by setting them problems proportionate to their knowledge, and helps them to solve their problems with stimulating questions, he may give them a taste for, and some means of, independent thinking.
