Coconut Safety Count and Compare

by Eric Gonzalez-Payne

Grade 3Ages 8 to 9·Mathematics·Worksheet
Coconut Safety Count and Compare

How many palms, how many nuts, how high, who walks underneath.

This is a genuine site survey with a genuine safety outcome, and children take it seriously because the risk is real and they know someone who has a story about it.

The counting is hard from the ground and the sheet includes an estimation method, which introduces the idea that some quantities can only be approximated.

The page has the survey grid, the estimation method, and a risk assessment frame. The output goes to whoever manages the grounds. Ours produced two palms being harvested early, which the class regarded as an enormous professional success.

Eric Gonzalez-Payne

Eric Gonzalez-Payne

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Ed.M. in Educational Leadership, Harvard Graduate School of Education

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