Geometry In Geometry

Mathematics is a subject we use in everyday life without even realizing it. Math is used when figuring out the shortest route to work with the traffic, used when trying to find the perfect angle to hit a golf ball from, and is even used in baking cookies. Merriam Webster defines mathematics as "the science of numbers and their operations, interrelations, combinations, generalizations, and abstractions and of space configurations and their structure, measurement, transformations, and generalizations" ("Mathematics"). This same dictionary defines baking as "to make (food, such as bread and cake) by preparing a dough, batter, etc., and cooking it in an oven using dry heat" ("Bake"). When reading these two definitions it seems that these two words

However, in baking geometry has a bigger role in the presentation of the good rather than the building of it. For example, if baking a batch of Christmas cookies you will utilize geometry to find the various shapes you want to create. You will use different size circles in order to create a snowman. The snowman will be 4 inches in diameter and will decrease by half the size as you go up. This means that each circle in ascending order will be 4 inches, 2 inches, and 1 inch in diameter. In order to calculate the number of snowmen you could fit on the same cookie sheet you would first have to find the area of the pan, then the area of each snowman, and then divide the area of the pan by the area of each snowman, the quotient would be how many cookies you have. Assuming the pan is a rectangle you multiply length and width. In this example the area of the pan is 10 x 10, which equals 100 inches squared. The area formula for a circle is pi multiplied by diameter. After doing this formula for the three individual circles you get the numbers 12.57, 3.14, and .79 inches (these numbers are rounded to the nearest hundredth). Using addition you add the three numbers and get the sum of 16.5 inches squared. Therefore, you could have 6.06 cookies in your pan. However, once you factor in how there should be space in between each cookie and that you can only use a whole number there would be about 5 cookies baking in one

In American Standard the units of measure are either ounces or pounds, while metric uses grams. For every 16 ounces there is one pound, making the ratio of pounds to ounces 1:16. This means for every pound multiply the number by 16 and that is how many ounces something weighs. For every ounce there are 30 grams, therefore every pound has 450 grams in it. When weighing larger items kilograms are often used instead of grams. For every 1 kilogram there are 1,000 grams, for every 1 kilogram there are 2.2 pounds. In the metric system everything goes in multiples of ten ("Equivalents and