Food Literacy: Cooking Up Confidence: Everyday Maths in the Kitchen
Course Overview
**Cooking Up Confidence: Everyday Maths in the Kitchen** is a practical, hands-on adult literacy course that develops everyday numeracy skills through cooking and food preparation. Using familiar recipes and real-life kitchen tasks, learners will build confidence in using maths in a relaxed and supportive environment.
Throughout the course, learners will explore essential numeracy skills including measuring ingredients, using fractions, converting weights and volumes, calculating cooking times, scaling recipes, understanding ratios and percentages, budgeting, and estimating quantities. Learners will also develop problem-solving skills by reading and following recipes, sequencing tasks, and making practical decisions in the kitchen.
The course combines practical activities with simple exercises to help learners apply maths to everyday life. By the end of the programme, participants will feel more confident using numeracy skills both in the kitchen and in other daily situations such as shopping, budgeting, and meal planning.
No previous cooking experience or advanced maths knowledge is required—just a willingness to learn in a friendly, supportive setting.
Start Date: 14-09-2026 Hours/week: 02 Hrs 00 Mins Duration: 6 weeks
No previous education required
Age Requirements
Please see course details for minimum age requirements.
For further information on Learner Profile please refer to relevant section of the Programme Descriptor.
Learning Aptitude
Willingness to learn
Previous Experience
No previous experience required
| Module | Award | Body |
|---|---|---|
| Development of Key Skills | – | – |
Use a range of kitchen measuring equipment accurately, including scales, measuring jugs and measuring spoons.
Measure and convert common weights, volumes and kitchen measurements.
Use fractions to halve, double and adapt recipes.
Calculate ingredient quantities for different numbers of servings.
Estimate quantities and make sensible mathematical decisions during food preparation.
Calculate cooking times and use timers effectively.
Understand and apply ratios and percentages used in recipes and food preparation.
Compare prices, calculate the cost per portion and make informed budgeting decisions when shopping for food.
Read, understand and follow recipes using logical sequencing and step-by-step instructions.
Recognise how numeracy skills are used in everyday cooking and daily life.
Develop confidence in applying practical maths skills in real-life situations.