Farmer Bill grows vegetables. He has no irrigation system. Fortunately he lives where it rains an average 2 inches per week. He grows cucumbers, yellow squash and jalapeno peppers. Cucumbers will grow 3 inches for every two inches of rain. The squash will grow 1 inch for every 3 inches of rain and the jalapeno peppers will grow 1 inch for every 6 inches of rain. Plot a graph for a 6 weeks growing period.
1. What is the length of each veggie at the end of 6 weeks?
2. How much water did they each get?
3. What is the growth rate of each veggie?
What is your independent variable? Rain or weeks? How are the graphs the same? How are they different?
Moving forward is a good thing. If you don't move, you become stagnant. If you become stagnant, you smell. (I'm going with a creek bed analogy here...stay with me). "It Is What It Is" helps us to keep our sanity as we try new things, but at the same time we should never settle for "what it is". We should constantly reflect and learn to move our teaching and our student's learning to higher levels so the classroom doesn't turn stale.
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