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July 20, 2012

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

Alignment to Common Core Standards for English Language Arts and Mathematics

Grade/Grade Span Mathematics
Grade 3 Measurement & Data: 3.md.3

 

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