Growing a Garden

Learners plant a garden and keep track of it. In this geometrical garden lesson, students collect data from their garden twice a week. They graph their finding and figure out how many square feet of growing space each person needs for food.

Even if your name isn't Mary, we'll still ask you, "How does your garden grow?" Given verbal and tabular information about the number of seeds planted in two gardens, future gardeners and mathematicians determine whether or not the...

Students engage in a study of area and finding the dimensions needed to construct a fence for a garden. They apply algebraic concepts and geometry to the problem while using the Texas Instruments graphing calculator. The lesson includes...

Learners explore the problem of maximizing area. For this lesson,They investigate a classic problem situation requiring maximization of area. Numbers are input into a table, a scatterplot is generated, and conclusions are drawn. This...

Exponential growth is modeled by learners as they analyze and interpret the data presented in this real-life scenario centered on the destructive invasion of the Giant African Land Snail. Learners get a touch of history and practice...

Students understand how they can incorporate dietary guidelines in their daily life.  For this investigative lesson students set dietary goals and incorporate an activity to learn how to create a new seed variety while studying dispersal...

What color does your garden grow? Learners manipulate the number of flowers of two colors in two garden plots. They determine the probabilities of choosing a particular color of a flower in a given plot. Scholars find the relationship of...

Students discover how to plan a vegetable garden. Each student take responsibility for growing one vegetable from seed, to transplanting the seedling into the soil, and providing the plant with light, moisture, temperature and healthy soil.

Watch your classes grow during as they experiment with science and mathematics! Learners collect data on percent of seed germination over a two-week period. They graph their results and create a report analyzing their findings.