Design A Garden Maths Activity

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Design a garden maths activity. Functional maths garden project. Submitted by tina smith on 23 october 2012. Pupils work in pairs to design a garden and calculate lengths from a scale drawing.

Students use knowledge of vegetables to theoretically plant out their garden beds. This package of core maths resources ask students to produce a quote for a building a garden following a simple plan. Due to the large number of possible choices the students could make regarding their garden design.

Editor s note wonderful open ended project. Students are asked to use volume and area calculations unit conversions and create precedence table and activity network. As a result of this activity students are encouraged to apply their learning and build a garden of their own.

This website and its content is subject to our terms and conditions. Have you ever wondered what the area of your garden is. Overviewthis teacher guide gives an overview of the task required student knowledge suggested approaches and possible extensions.

Math explained in easy language plus puzzles games quizzes worksheets and a forum. One of a range of functional maths tasks i have developed. Students use perimeter and area to measure parallelograms triangles and composite shapes.

Covers geometric drawings area perimeter money metric measures tallies line graphs and much more. Hide ads about ads. I have added older formats as requested.