Challenge your students this week with these math questions focusing on fall harvest.
Kindergaten – 2nd Grade:
Ask your students to color the image. Then use the image to answer each question.
1. How many tomatoes are on the ground?
2. Susan picks 15 of the tomatoes off the plants. How many tomatoes are left on the plants after Susan picks hers?
3. It takes 20 tomatoes to make 1 jar of ketchup. Based on the image, how many jars can be made from this harvest? Use words and numbers to support your answer.
3rd – 5th Grade:
1. Beth and Jan both grew watermelons. Beth’s largest watermelon weighs 18 pounds and Jan’s weighs 26 pounds. What is the difference between the weight of Beth and Jan’s watermelons? Use words and numbers to support your answer.
2. Only ¾ of Betty’s green bean plants produced any beans. She had a total of 16 green bean plants. How many of her plants produced beans? Use words and numbers to support your answer.
3. Farmer Dave has 20 rows of corn. Each row has 50 stalks of corn. Each stalk has 3 ears of corn. How many total ears of cord does farmer Dave have? Use words and numbers to support your answer.
6th – 8th Grade:
Lilly saves money on groceries by having a large garden. Table 1 provides the amount of vegetables she harvested this year. Lilly cans (preserves) the vegetables to use throughout the year.
1. Lilly is canning her green beans. She has 14 large mason jars that each hold 2 pounds of green beans. How many of the small mason jars does she need if each jar holds 1 pound? Justify your answer.
2. Lilly plans to make salsa using ¼ of her tomatoes, and spaghetti sauce with 1/3 of her tomatoes. The rest will be preserved in mason jars to use in stews and soups. How many pounds of her tomatoes will be used for stews and soups? Justify your answer.
3. Lilly is making pickles using 30% of her cucumbers. She plans on makes 25% of the pickles as slices and 60% as spears and the rest into a hot and spicy mix. How many pounds of cucumbers will be used to make the hot and spicy mix? Justify your answer.
High School:
1. Sam has already picked 2 pounds of peas from his plants. One plant averages ¼ of a pound of peas. Write an equation to represent the total number of pounds (y) based on (x) number of plants Sam has remaining.
2. Russell farms use a field that is 650 ft by 340 ft to grow a variety of pumpkins. They use 40% of the field to plant white pumpkins, 40% of the field to plant miniature pumpkins and the rest for large pumpkins. Plants for large pumpkins need to be spaced 6 feet apart (circle with radius of 6 ft). On average 70% of the large pumpkin plants mature and produce pumpkins. Each mature plant yields 3 large pumpkins. How many large pumpkins can the Russell farms expect from their crop?
3. Beck’s Hybrids is an international seed corn company that originated in Atlanta IN (this authors hometown). They have over 11 million acres of seed corn. They have 12 combines that each harvest corn at a rate of 8 acres per hour. They have 7 combines that can harvest corn at 5 acres per hour. How many days does it take Beck’s Hybrids to harvest all of their seed corn? Justify your answer.