Seed Math

Today Farm Abby came in with seed catalogs.  We enjoyed looking at all the seeds that can grow in our state.  Then the class looked at our school seed selling fundraiser.  We noticed that different seeds take different amounts of time to mature.  Everyone was given the name of a seed and the number of days it would take to mature.  Then the students counted out that number of unifix cubes, making towers of ten for ease in counting.  When each number was created the student brought the cubes to the front of the room where we compared that number to the others.  All the cube representations of numbers were then put in order from smallest to largest.  We discovered spinach would grow the quickest and pumpkins would take the longest.  Then we counted back 102 days from August 25 to see when we should plant a pumpkin seed if we want it ready for the Windsor Fair.

When all was said and down the class discussed how many math standards they had covered.  They had counted to one by ones, counted by tens, made models to represent a number, and they had compared both unifix cube amounts as well as the written number.  We decided that farmers use math all the time!