Wilbur Loves to Garden

Wilbur was learning about following directions and planting with Ms Jones and Ms Justice's class today.

In the Garden 5-6

To create a rock garden, Carlos evenly places fence posts in the ground to form a rectangle. His rock garden will be 36 meters long and 24 meters wide. He puts a post every 6 meters. How many fence posts does he need for his garden?

In the garden 1-2

Callie creates a flower border for her classroom bulletin board. Each paper flower has 6 petals. Callie needs 20 of her lovely flowers to complete the border. She has 55 petals. Does she have enough flower petals to finish the border? If not how many more will she need?

In the Garden 3-4

Parker's beanstalk was 3 centimeters high when he measured it on Sunday. By Monday it was 6 cm high. The beanstalk doubles its height every day. What will be the height of the beanstalk by Saturday? Do you think it will be taller than Parker on that day? If not when do you think it will be taller than Parker?

In The Garden K

Grades K

Flower arranging is one of Lupita's favorite hobbies. One day she picks a red rose, an orange daylilly, and a white daisy from her grandmother's garden. How many different patterns can she make if she lines up the flowers on a table? Draw a picture of your solution.

Wilbur loves math!

It is raining so Wilbur is going to try out some of the math problems from The Teaching Mathematics magazine. You may want to help him out. We will see if you get the same answers. Don't forget to show your work!