Wild Blueberry Math

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Brief Description: The students will examine, interpret and manipulate real-life data about the economics of wild blueberry production.

 

objectives:

The students will:

1.  read and interpret graphs depicting real-world data.
2. create graphs using real-world data.
3. manipulate real-world information to solve problems and understand some of the decision-making challenges of producing wild blueberries.
4. formulate and answer questions from real-world data.

life skills:

Displaying data, graphing, graph reading, mathematics, problem solving

materials:

• Copies of Wild Blueberry Production Decisions
• Copies of The Annual Blueberry Crop
• Copies of Wild Blueberry Production
• Graph paper
• Pens or pencils
• Calculators, if desired

Estimated teaching time:

Three 45-minute class periods

preparation:

Make copies of the student activity pages.

vocabulary:

Annual, clone, data, litter, production, pruning, integrated crop management

Correlations to State of Maine Learning Results: Parameters for Essential Instruction

Content Area	Performance Indicator	Grades 3-5 Descriptor(s)	Grades 6-8 Descriptor(s)
Health Education & Physical Education	A6
Mathematics	A3
	A4
	A5 B2
Social Studies	C1	a, b, c	a, c