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Mathematics Ag-tivities Grade and standard aligned mathematics activities that teach students about agriculture. Mathematics Ag-tivities Grade and standard aligned mathematics activities that teach students about agriculture. Introduction: Mathematics can be incorporated into all areas of the curriculum. This book provides lessons that teach mathematics concepts while educating students about agriculture. At the beginning of each chapter, there is a short explanation of the concepts covered in the mathematics substrands for that grade level. The substrands Virginia has adopted include: Number and Number Sense; Computation and Estimation; Measurement; Geometry; Probability and Statistics; and Patterns, Functions, and Algebra. The lessons that follow provide the numbers for the Virginia Standards of Learning, necessary materials, background information, and the procedure. Extensions and pictures are also included. Entire SOL’s are listed in a separate section, and the Masters for the activities are located at the end of this book. Each lesson incorporates interesting information about agriculture with mathematics concepts. Students gain skills to solve math problems while learning about agricultural facts about livestock, various commodities, and plant growth. Acknowledgments: AITC acknowledges the contributions of our writer, Katie Baker. She graduated with a degree in Interdisciplinary Liberal Studies and a minor in Elementary Education from James Madison University in May 2011. Katie’s concentration was in Math and Science, with an additional endorsement in Algebra 1. In May 2012, she will graduate from JMU with her Master of Arts in Teaching, concentrating in Elementary Education and completing an endorsement in Gifted and Talented Education. Tammy Maxey and Lynn Black provided guidance, ideas, and materials for this project. They are both AITC Education Coordinators. This project was funded by Agriculture in the Classroom. Table of Contents Kindergarten Egg Carton Math 2 Seasons on a Farm 3 Below or Above? 5 Cow Glyphs 6 Farmyard Tangrams 8 1st Grade Apple Orchard Math 12 Fruits and Veggies We Eat 14 Classifying Virginia Products by Shape 16 Farmyard Patterns 18 2nd Grade Farm Fractions 22 Farm Animal Skip Counting 24 Crop Picture Graphs 26 Scarecrow Measuring 27 Produce Painting 29 3rd Grade Watermelon Fractions 34 Agriculture Arrays 36 Apple Statistics, Lesson 1 38 Apple Statistics, Lesson 2 40 Classifying VA Products by Solid Figure, Lesson 1 44 Classifying VA Products by Solid Figure, Lesson 2 46 4th Grade Balancing Act 50 From Farm to Food 53 Natural Angles 55 Pollination Probability 57 5th Grade Flowering Factorization 62 Buzzing with Math Facts 64 Quilt Classifying 66 Coordinating Crops 69 Herding Cattle 71 Virginia Standards of Learning Connections 75 Masters 87 Kindergarten Number and Number Sense Young children gain essential counting skills during kindergarten. The concept of one-to-one correspondence develops and flourishes during this year. Computation and Estimation Kindergarten students add and subtract up to 10 concrete objects. Measurement Weather and seasons are incorporated into early childhood lessons. Geometry Simple plane figures are identified by kindergarteners. The location of objects is also an important concept for young children to understand. Probability and Statistics Not only are students expected to understand numerals, but the children are also required to use tallies as a form of counting. Picture and object graphs are also taught during this grade. Patterns, Functions, and Algebra Naming patterns and contributing objects to extend the patterns are skills gained during kindergarten. The students’ abilities to classify objects are not only an important skill in mathematics, but in science as well. Egg Carton Math Standards of Learning Math: K.1, K.6 Science: K.7, K.9 English: K.2 Materials Pom-poms, fake eggs, or other small objects that can fit inside an egg carton 3-5 Egg cartons (diagram found on p. 88) Background Knowledge Young children can benefit from concrete examples of abstract ideas. This lesson allows students to count objects and begin to understand addition problems that equal 10 or less. Also, egg cartons represent one commodity Virginia farmers produce. Chicken eggs account for $77.1 million in Virginia. There are nearly 900 chicken farms in the Commonwealth. Procedure 1. Create the manipulatives shown above. Practice counting with the students prior to the activity. 2. Discuss eggs, chicks, and chickens and the importance of them for Virginia farmers. Read books such as Eggs and Chicks by Fiona Patchett or From Egg to Chicken by Gerald Legg. 3. Use the egg cartons and objects to practice counting, number recognition, addition, and subtraction. Extension Create the lifecycle of an egg as it grows into a chicken. Also, this lesson could be helpful for older students struggling with the concept of addition and/or subtraction. 2 Seasons on a Farm Standards of Learning Math: K.8, 1.11 Science: K.9, 1.7 Materials Book that incorporates farming and seasons, such as Seasons on a Farm by Nancy Dickmann Scissors Glue Large chart paper divided into four sections titled: fall, winter, spring, and summer Watering can Seed packet Toy tractor An example of corn Worksheet (see p. 89) Background Knowledge Children can observe changes in weather—from a hot and sunny summer, to a cold and snowy winter. It is important for young students to understand seasons and that different phenomenon occur during certain times of the year. Providing examples of activities on a farm throughout the seasons allows children to associate concrete actions to the abstract concepts of seasons and weather changes. Procedure 1. Read students Seasons on a Farm by Nancy Dickmann, or a similar book describing farm life during specific seasons. 2. Discuss the various jobs farmers must complete, especially which season they get them done. 3 3. Have the concrete objects such as a watering can, seed packet, toy tractor, and corn, and ask students to sort them into the appropriate season on the chart paper, i.e. corn goes in the fall (harvest). 4. Explore other events that occur during the four seasons. 5. Have students cut out the pictures on the worksheet and glue them in one of the boxes underneath the appropriate season. Then ask them to draw a picture of what other things they do during the fall, winter, spring, and summer in the other box. Extension Write sentences about your favorite season and what you do during that time. 4
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