Math In The Garden is an innovative math book that integrates math with practical real-life skills using the hands-on approach of garden work! I personally would like to see more books like this, so I'm happy to be sharing this book and all the activities we do from it.

While putting together our nature units for the spring, we decided to include the book called Math In The Garden. This delightful book has garden projects that center around different math concepts. The books is beautifully done and is very complete offering a variety of math concepts from ages 5-13 as well as a list of state standards the projects will meet for quick reference.

We are working through our Waldorf Main Lesson Block for Botany and included the book Math In The Garden, available at Acorn Naturalists, as part of our unit. This book does an excellent job weaving math into garden activities that are sure to delight and educate children is an interactive hands-on way.

We just finished making nature journals inspired by the book Math in the Garden. One of the first projects is to make a nature journal so that you have a place to record everything you learn when you do the activities suggested in the book

Our Botany main lesson block for our Waldorf homeschool has been expanded to include a plants and trees unit study. For this unit, we added the book Math In The Garden published by Kids in the Garden.org . This book comes with several math lessons you can do while in the garden. The book is designed for ages 5-13, and it's packed with activities ranging from estimation, counting, area, and patterns all the way up to algebra.

Today, we are working on Ratios of Shoots and Roots, an activity for children 8-13 years of age. What I like about this book is that each lessons comes with multiple ways to approach the lesson or comes with various activities. You could complete them all or choose what suits you students, or you could use the book as inspiration and depart completely from the activities and design your own lessons and activities based on the information provided in the book.

We are working through the book Math In The Garden. To see the lesson we are working on, swipe left. This lesson is on the ratio between roots and shoots. That's a drawing of a beet we harvested today. It got long and deformed.

We just completed our Math In The Garden lesson for today. Love this book!! Mine is on the left. My 10-year-olds is on the right. The beet was harvested from our garden earlier today. This lesson is on ratios.

There are many practical ways to learn about area and perimeter, and while I think starting with a square or rectangle is advisable as an introduction, once the student has learned how to measure and calculate the area and perimeter of their room or home, I think moving to the garden to measure and calculate perimeter and area of leaves is a fabulous hands-on idea.

Working on another entry for our Math In The Garden book. This one is on leaf comparison and area. We pulled these leaves from our garden. We trimmed several grape leaves to make dolmas.

We are making our way through the Math in the Garden Book and exploring Length, circumference, median and mean. We gathered an assortment of fruits and found that we have spring and summer fruits, but we can do this in the fall and winter as well with pomegranates, persimmons, and butternut squash.

What I like about this book is that each lessons comes with multiple ways to approach the lesson or comes with various activities. You could complete them all or choose what suits you students, or you could use the book as inspiration and depart completely from the activities and design your own lessons and activities based on the information provided in the book.

We wrapped up our Math in the Garden unit with this project we started months ago. We planted dwarf sunflower seeds in little paper pots we got from a root observation kit from Nature-Watch. We made a T-Chart and a graph in our garden notebook and filled in the height of the sunflower each week. Or so that was the idea.