Today we are launching our remote education activities to support our community with learning at home and to enable people to keep in touch with the farm. This is new for us so please do bear with us if we need to change things around. We are aiming to provide a programme of learning activities each day which complement the school curriculum in the real life setting of the farm.
Each day at 1.30pm a member of farm staff will host a live from the farm session on our facebook group. In the morning we will set a maths question from our work on the farm and in the afternoon we will provide the solution and working. For those of you able to pass by the farm gates as part of your daily exercise we will also be putting together do at home activity packs so watch out for the announcement.
So lets get started.
Todays maths problem is that we have a sheet of wooden board which we are making into the end of a greenhouse. The board is 2.4m by 1.2m. We want to cut the board as little as possible to make the end of the shed which needs to be 1.2m wide by 2m high at the lowest point. We also have clear polycarbonate sheets to make the roof and the walls which are 3000mm long and we need to know whether there is enough of these left after cutting the 2m piece to make the walls to use for the roof. Can we do this and how long is the minimum length of clear sheet we need for a roof panel? Here is a drawing of the wooden sheet with the measurements and the shape we will need to cut out to help you.