Cookies Inc. : Recipe Ratios & Business Math

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Lab Description

In this hands-on, interactive lab, students step into the role of an aspiring entrepreneur with a dream of starting a cookie business. Inspired by their grandmother’s delicious homemade cookies, they decide to sell them in a mall—but quickly realize they need $3,000 for the deposit. With only a $1,500 investment from Grandma, they start small with a cookie cart in the mall, learning critical business and math skills along the way.

Students target is to make a profit of $3000 or more over the course of three simulated months.

Throughout this lab, students apply ratio concepts, measurement conversions, and cost analysis to calculate the total cost of making each cookie. They begin by scaling Grandma’s recipe, which is measured in teaspoons and cups, into standard units like pounds and gallons. Using a supplier's rate card, they determine ingredient costs and apply pricing strategies based on demand and profit curves.

Each simulated month consists of three key tasks:

Month Planning: Decide how many cookies to produce.

Purchase Order Preparation: Determine ingredient quantities and prepare an order to buy supplies.

Pricing Strategy: Set the price of cookies based on demand and profit analysis.

At the end of each month, students analyze their sales performance, adjust their pricing and production strategies, and track their earnings. An auto-calculated leaderboard, presented by the teacher, displays each student’s profit standings, allowing for a competitive and engaging experience.

The ultimate goal? Earn enough profit to pay back Grandma’s investment and secure $3,000 to open a cookie store inside the mall!

This engaging simulation blends math, financial literacy, and entrepreneurship, making real-world business concepts accessible and fun for students. Will they make the right decisions to build a successful cookie empire? Let’s find out! 🍪💰

Student Feedback
Common Core Math -
Ratios & Proportions
Recognize and represent proportional relationships between quantities.
Common Core Math -
Ratios & Proportions
Compute unit rates associated with ratios of fractions, including ratios of lengths, areas and other quantities measured in like or different units. *For example, if a person walks 1/2 mile in each 1/4 hour, compute the unit rate as the complex fraction ^1/2/1/4 miles per hour, equivalently 2 miles per hour*.
Common Core Math -
Ratios & Proportions
Solve unit rate problems including those involving unit pricing and constant speed. *For example, if it took 7 hours to mow 4 lawns, then at that rate, how many lawns could be mowed in 35 hours? At what rate were lawns being mowed?*
Common Core Math -
Ratios & Proportions
Make tables of equivalent ratios relating quantities with whole-number measurements, find missing values in the tables, and plot the pairs of values on the coordinate plane. Use tables to compare ratios.
Common Core Math -
Ratios & Proportions
Use ratio and rate reasoning to solve real-world and mathematical problems, e.g., by reasoning about tables of equivalent ratios, tape diagrams, double number line diagrams, or equations.
Common Core Math -
Ratios & Proportions
Understand the concept of a unit rate a/b associated with a ratio a:b with b ≠ 0, and use rate language in the context of a ratio relationship. *For example, "This recipe has a ratio of 3 cups of flour to 4 cups of sugar, so there is 3/4 cup of flour for each cup of sugar." "We paid $75 for 15 hamburgers, which is a rate of $5 per hamburger."*
Common Core Math -
Ratios & Proportions
Understand the concept of a ratio and use ratio language to describe a ratio relationship between two quantities. *For example, "The ratio of wings to beaks in the bird house at the zoo was 2:1, because for every 2 wings there was 1 beak." "For every vote candidate A received, candidate C received nearly three votes."*
Common Core Math -
Number System
Interpret and compute quotients of fractions, and solve word problems involving division of fractions by fractions, e.g., by using visual fraction models and equations to represent the problem. *For example, create a story context for (2/3) ÷ (3/4) and use a visual fraction model to show the quotient; use the relationship between multiplication and division to explain that (2/3) ÷ (3/4) = 8/9 because 3/4 of 8/9 is 2/3. (In general, (a/b) ÷ (c/d) = ad/bc.) How much chocolate will each person get if 3 people share 1/2 lb of chocolate equally? How many 3/4-cup servings are in 2/3 of a cup of yogurt? How wide is a rectangular strip of land with length 3/4 mi and area 1/2 square mi?*.
Common Core Math -
Expressions & Equations
Write, read, and evaluate expressions in which letters stand for numbers.
Price per Classroom
$20.00
Duration
2 Hours
Activities
58
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