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Spring
While snow still covers the ground in many parts of the country, gardeners and farmers are preparing for the new blooms and new crops of spring…
- numbers of spring lambs
- production and sales of spring flowers
- snapshot of maple syrup production
See the lesson: Tapping the Manitoba maple - a Prairie cottage industry. For many other lessons on agriculture, check the Agriculture at a Glance Teacher’s Kit 2001.
Spring is the time for the birthing of farm animals… and of humans too!
Secondary Math teachers: Data on births in Canada over time provide a great example of a quadratic function. See Function Modelling Using Secondary Data from E-STAT and look under “Quadratic” for the topic “Canadian births”.
