Who knew running a greenhouse required so much math? Amaze future mathematicians and farmers with the amount of unit conversions, ratio and proportional reasoning, and geometric applications involved by having them complete the performance task. After completing the activity, they'll never ask when they'll use math in real life!

Concepts

unit conversions, ratios, proportions, proportional reasoning, volume

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Additional Tags

math

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Instructional Ideas

• Team up with an agriculture or CTE teacher for this lesson
• Use the performance task as a class project or as an assessment task

Classroom Considerations

• Calculators should be available

Pros

• Teacher resource includes an answer key with possible solutions
• Includes possible extensions to use as homework or as projects
• Educators will appreciate the alignment charts with comments and ratings of how strongly the task aligns to each listed standard and mathematical practice

Cons

• None

Common Core

6.RP.A.2 6.RP.A.3.b 6.RP.A.3.d 7.RP.A.3 7.G.B.6 HSN-Q.A.1 HSN-Q.A.3 HSG-MG.A.3 RST.9-10.1 RST.9-10.2 RST.9-10.3 RST.9-10.5 MP1 MP3 MP6