Otaika Valley School Sunflower Forest

Room 4 decided they wanted to grow some giant sunflowers but we needed some help sorting out the maths problems associated with making the garden. Room 2 have been working with Room 4 to create giant wooden butterflies to go on our outside classroom wall so we asked them to help us create, make and look after our forest.
The teacher created a maths problem sheet and we gave it to the students to see if they could solve the problem/s.

These are the seeds that we got from Kings Seeds.


















Maths: Problem solving in real life

We want to plant a SUNFLOWER FOREST around our court on the inside   (so the plants will be protected).

How many plants can we plant along the edge of the court fence so the plants have enough room to grow.?

Can you draw a plan and show where the seeds need to go and distances apart.

We will grow the seeds in little jiffy pots then transfer them to the ground when they are big enough. We will keep a diary,  on our sunflower forest blog, and keep track of progress, problems, growth and measurements.