SCALE IT
Learn how to scale recipes up or down to serve simulated café crowd sizes using ratio reasoning, whole-number and fractional multipliers, and customary measurement conversions.
Open Week 1Course 1 · Module 2
Module 2: Food Lab & Pop-Up Café
Plan a three-item pop-up café menu and build a café business portfolio.
Scale recipes, compare ingredient purchases, and test how prices and sales affect your café’s profit.
Approximately 20 instructional days · Four weeks
Main math concepts
- Ratios and recipe scaling
- Fractions, decimals, and measurement conversions
- Unit rates
- Cost, pricing, and profit
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Your four-week plan
COST IT
I can use grocery package prices and unit rates to calculate item costs, compare buying options, build a working budget, and adjust my plan to stay within financial constraints.
Open Week 2PRICE IT & TEST THE PROFIT
In Week 3, you will decide what to charge for your menu items, estimate your total revenue, compare your revenue to your expenses from Week 2, calculate your profit, and test whether your café plan is financially workable.
Open Week 3FINALIZE IT & SHOW YOUR MATH
I can audit my café plan for mathematical accuracy, explain my financial decisions with clear evidence, assemble my final project, verify my skills on the Module 2 assessment, and reflect on my growth as a mathematical problem-solver.
Open Week 4