Math project

We had the goal to make a bar graph of peoples favorite colors. We used tally marks to keep track of favorite colors, then used the mathlink cubes to illustrate our graph before drawing it. 

You can see the tally marks and cubes here.

Here we turned it into he graph.

Pizza oven

While I was visiting my family in Idaho my father and I took some old bricks I bought a few years ago to make a churrasceria and we turned them into a brick pizza oven. We made it with room underneath the cooking slab (we used a pizza stone for the slab) to put coals. We set the pizza stone on some old cooling racks, and held the cooling racks by placing bricks on top of them.

For cooking we started with coals underneath, but it needed quite a few coals to get it hot enough. Eventually there was a live fire under, but that got too hot. Probably the best way would be to start the fire under the cooking area and let it die to coals down there rather than just putting coals underneath after they burn down. Then the oven is hot, but not too hot.

We used plywood covered in tinfoil for the top and the oven door. It worked really well.

We had extra pizza dough left over so I made it into some loaves and baked them. It worked like a charm. Some were slightly burnt on the bottom, but we just cut that part off. All in all it was a fun experience. I wish I had it at my house.