Garden Geometry

by Eric Gonzalez-Payne

Grade 4Ages 9 to 10·Nature and science·Worksheet
Garden Geometry

The beds exist. Measure them, calculate area and perimeter, then answer questions that depend on the answers.

How much mulch. How much fencing. How many plants at this spacing. Every question has a practical consequence and a wrong answer means a real shortfall, which children take seriously in a way they do not with abstract shapes.

The page has the measurement frames, the calculations, and three procurement questions. It also has an irregular bed, deliberately, because real beds are not rectangles and dividing an awkward shape into shapes you can handle is the actual skill being taught.

Eric Gonzalez-Payne

Eric Gonzalez-Payne

Founder and curriculum author

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

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