A trip to Levittown’s Gardiners Avenue Elementary School’s pumpkin patch, sponsored by the PTA, resulted in Tamara Vining’s first-grade students’ participation in various, fun-filled pumpkin math activities.
After selecting their colorful orange gourds, the students sat down to work by predicting whether their pumpkin would float or sink in a tub of water. They also measured their pumpkins with string and unifix cubes, recorded their answers on worksheets, and counted the number of veins or lines on their pumpkins.
