{"id":918,"date":"2016-02-18T16:18:14","date_gmt":"2016-02-19T00:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/dadaab\/?page_id=918"},"modified":"2016-03-06T10:14:33","modified_gmt":"2016-03-06T18:14:33","slug":"educ-276-pre-course-assignment-4","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/dadaab\/educ-276\/educ-276-pre-course-assignment-4\/","title":{"rendered":"EDUC 276 \u2013 Lesson 4 (online) Assignment #4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Designing Problem Solving: On a separate sheet(s) of paper provide a written response to each of the following questions and bring your responses to our first class in April 2016.\u00a0<strong> You do not need to post your\u00a0response on this blog.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Download this assignment [<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/dadaab\/files\/2016\/02\/EDUC-276-Assignment-4.docx\" rel=\"\">Word<\/a>, 150KB] [<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/dadaab\/files\/2016\/02\/EDUC-276-Assignment-4.pdf\" rel=\"\">PDF<\/a>, 81KB]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Planting Trees<\/strong>. A community member plants fruit trees (\u2022) in a square pattern. To protect the trees from wind and goats the community member plants acacia trees (<strong>x<\/strong>) all around the fruit trees. Below is the pattern of fruit and acacia trees the community member uses for any number of (n) rows of fruit trees.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/dadaab\/files\/2016\/02\/fruit_acacia.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-920\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-920\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/dadaab\/files\/2016\/02\/fruit_acacia.jpg\" alt=\"fruit_acacia\" width=\"680\" height=\"359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/dadaab\/files\/2016\/02\/fruit_acacia.jpg 680w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/dadaab\/files\/2016\/02\/fruit_acacia-300x158.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Assume the pattern continues for other rows of fruit trees. Draw the pattern for n=5 rows of trees.<\/p>\n<p>Consider the mathematical pattern to determine the number of acacia trees needed for 10 rows of fruit trees?<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Solve the Planting Trees\u00a0 problem. Show all your work. (10 marks)<\/li>\n<li>What mathematical ideas and concepts do you think students could find difficult or challenging with this problem? (4 marks)<\/li>\n<li>Select one challenge you discussed above in Question 2 and discuss how you would respond as teacher (5 marks)<\/li>\n<li>In what ways is the mathematics in the problem Planting Trees similar to the mathematics in the Wood Stacking Problem in Assignment 2? Explain (6 marks)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Designing Problem Solving: On a separate sheet(s) of paper provide a written response to each of the following questions and bring your responses to our first class in April 2016.\u00a0 You do not need to post your\u00a0response on this blog. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/dadaab\/educ-276\/educ-276-pre-course-assignment-4\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10655,"featured_media":0,"parent":905,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-918","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/dadaab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/dadaab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/dadaab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/dadaab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10655"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/dadaab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=918"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/dadaab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":946,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/dadaab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/918\/revisions\/946"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/dadaab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/dadaab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}