North Brookfield Elementary School
| Names: | Katherine Lewandowski and Megan Hanson |
| Grades: | 4th grade students, advanced learner program |
| Description: | We chose to do our project on Hanson Farm because Megan lives there and we hang out there a lot. |
| Concepts: | Whole number operations. |
| Grade level | 3-4th |
| Curriculum Framework Learning Standards | 1) Interpret the multiple uses of numbers by
taking real-world situations and translating them into numerical
statements. 2) Relate the mathematical language and symbolism of operations to problem situations. 3) Know when to use the operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division; and describe their relationships. |
Hanson Farm
Hanson farm has been in the family for 89 years. It is a dairy farm located on Smith Hanson Rd. in the town of North Brookfield, Ma. We have 60 cows, 30calves, 1 rabbit, and 2 cats. There are 3 breeds of cows and they are dairy, beef, and dual. The dairy breeds are Holstein, Jersey, Guernsey, Ayshire, and Brown Swiss. The dual breeds are Devon and Scottish Highlander. The beef breeds are Hereford, Shorthorn, Angus, and Charolais. Dual are used for many of purposes such as beef, milk, and more.
At Hanson farm we have two kinds of dairy cows, which are Holstein and Jersey. Hanson farm
is one of four farms left in North Brookfield. We feed the cows corn silage, grain, hay,
corn meal, and grist mix. A cow chews 50 times per minute. Cows can see color. They stand
up and lay down 14 times a day. They also can smell odor from six miles away. Cows can be
these colors, red and white, red, black and white, brown, brown and white, and golden
brown. A cow’s udder can hold between 25 and 50 pounds of milk.
One day the cows got out of the barn. We tried to chase them back into the barn, but one cow, named Parkay did not want to go. She jumped over the electric fence and walked around the manure pit. We tried to chase her the other way. She ended up jumping into the middle of the manure pit, and started swimming around. She then proudly climbed out herself and went into the barn with the other cows.
Math Problems
#1. We have 200 acres on the farm. If there are 40 acres of hay and 4 acres of sweet corn,
how many acres of land do we have without the corn and hay?
Answer: 156 acres left
#2. The cow’s jaw chews 50 times a minute. How many times would it chew in one day?
Answer: 72,000 times per day 3,000/hr. 36,000 12 hrs. 72,000 per day
#3. If we have 90 cows and each cow drinks 50 gallons of water per day, how many gallons of water do cows drink each day?
Answer: 4500 gallons each day