Cookies Inc. : Recipe Ratios - Paired Learning

Career Solutions Publishing has partnered with Active Learning Labs to introduce this real-world business simulation for high school students.

Students will learn the concept of Ratios and Proportions in depth by solving a real-world challenge. In Cookie Inc. - Recipe Ratios lab, students will run a cookie cart business that sells the delicious cookies that Grandma used to prepare. To run the business, students must analyze the ingredients and their ratios of Grandma's cookie first. Since Grandma uses her units of measurement such as cups and tablespoons, students will use Math to convert these units to the grocer's units such as pounds and gallons. Using the rate card provided by the grocer, they will find the cost of preparing one cookie and then decide how many cookies they can prepare using the $1500 invested by their grandma. Students will also learn about planning & purchasing and use those ideas to run the business for three months.

Their objective is to get a minimum profit of $3000 by the end of the third month of their business and use that money to pay the deposit needed to start a bigger cookie store inside a mall.

The lab has two versions - a single-player version in which all students in the classroom will run the lab independently, and a paired learning version in which the classroom will be divided into teams of two and both team members divide the work and collaborate, to win the challenge.

The duration of the lab is two days (1 hour per day), on the first day, students will run individual tasks to gain knowledge in ratio concepts, business basics, and equitation building. On the second day, the scores that the students gained from the first day's activities will be used to split the classroom into teams and each team will run the three-month business.