I WISH TO TAKE A CULINARY COURSE AND ONE OF THE PREREQUISITES IS GRADE 12 MATH?
I did class eleven math though never programmed upon you do class twelve math. The march we took was the easiest the single since Math is my misfortune subject. The courses we am you do have been by association studies (or stretch learning) as well as it will be really formidable to do math but the tutor. Why does the in progress march need math as the prerequisite?
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Why does a cooking course require math as a prerequisite?
Good question… I am horrible in math, and I graduated Johnson and Wales with a culinary and a pastry degree. Yes, I needed to know math in the kitchen, but very basic math… Addition, subtraction, division, multiplication, and some fraction work (if you are writing recipes then some percentage stuff)… Nothing that can not be figured out on a calculator. Good luck.
I’m not sure what grade 12 math is at your school, but a lot of professional baking relies heavily on precise gram measurements, formulas and ratios. You shouldn’t need calculus or anything, but you should be able to multiply out recipes and know how many tablespoons are in a gallon, etc.
To start with, just about everything that we do involves math.
In particular, cooking involves measuring (math), adapting recipes for different size crowds (math), and understanding the effects of different levels and styles of heat (physics, which is applied math)
Then, of course, there’s the fact that math is problem solving, logic and discipline, and all of these are necessary skills, particularly in a crazy-busy commercial kitchen. It doesn’t matter if you don’t want to cook commercially. Taking a culinary course presumes the possibility of commercial use of the skills that you will acquire.
for your info, you will be needing a lot of mathematics in cooking. i have a chef friend and she tells me that she uses a lot of measurements and equations while preparing the food ingredients.
You need you math in cooking to measure things, to cut the size of things or increase them. You have to have math also to do the time of cooking different things. like cooking a turkey it takes 1 hr. for 4 lbs. so if you have a turkey that weighs. 20 lbs. you will know that you have to divide 20 lbs,by,4 hours and get the hrs. for cooking. You do a lot with math in cooking.
Well math isn’t my subject, either. But you can see how running a restaurant kitchen could take lots of math. Imagine, you have 10 trays of brownies to make a day. How much flour and sugar do you need to order? Enough chicken cutlets to cover the special Thursday? Well that takes a lot of math. You think a boss wants to spend more money than he needs to? No way.
Maybe you could take the class locally, not from correspondence.