Fruit Tree Yield and Sharing Study

by Eric Gonzalez-Payne

Grade 6Ages 11 to 12·Nature and science·Worksheet
Fruit Tree Yield and Sharing Study

Estimate the crop, then decide who gets what.

The estimation is real maths involving sampling and scaling. The sharing is a genuine ethical question with no arithmetic answer, and putting the two next to each other is deliberate.

The page has the estimation method, the yield calculation, and a distribution proposal requiring a stated principle. Equal shares, need, contribution, and first come are all defensible and produce different outcomes. Students have to pick one and defend it, and the discussion is consistently one of the better ones in the whole set.

Eric Gonzalez-Payne

Eric Gonzalez-Payne

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

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