Thinking Like A Mathematician

To finish our spectacular day, we did some pumpkin exemplars. Since we are working hard on our knowledge of fractions this year, we added a fraction question to each exemplar. These students sent me to the moon and back. They were up to the challenge and worked together to solve each question they were given. "The farmer has 12 pumpkin seeds and he is going to plant them in rows, but the rows have to be equal in number. Find all the ways the farmer could plant the seeds. Then identify the the planting pattern that splits the seeds in third." Ask my students, they can tell you...and it isn't just because they are rural children.