{"id":71683,"date":"2020-05-05T10:12:48","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T14:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/?page_id=71683"},"modified":"2020-05-25T12:33:31","modified_gmt":"2020-05-25T16:33:31","slug":"the-amazing-splitting-plant","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/learn\/elementary-home\/elementary-2\/math\/math-grades-1-3\/problems\/the-amazing-splitting-plant\/","title":{"rendered":"The Amazing Splitting Plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Problems<\/h5>\n<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-71684 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/05\/suUyIo3d4KmFv7qFHQgxy0w.png\" alt=\"Plant with two branches, splitting off into two branches each.\" width=\"188\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/05\/suUyIo3d4KmFv7qFHQgxy0w.png 188w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/05\/suUyIo3d4KmFv7qFHQgxy0w-165x175.png 165w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 188px) 100vw, 188px\" \/><\/h3>\n<h3>Materials:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>paper, pencil<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The splitting plant grows in a special way.<br \/>\nIn the first week, the stem splits into two branches.<br \/>\nIn the second week, each of these two branches split into another two branches making four branches altogether.<\/p>\n<p>This keeps happening every week, until at the end of the sixth week each branch grows a flower.<\/p>\n<p>How many flowers will the plant have?<\/p>\n<h3>Hints for Getting Started<\/h3>\n<p>The picture shows the plant after three weeks. How many branches will there be after three weeks? Four weeks &#8230;?<br \/>\nHow will you keep track of the number of branches?<br \/>\nIt might help to draw a picture, make a chart or jot some numbers down.<\/p>\n<p>Adapted from <a href=\"https:\/\/nrich.maths.org\/159\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">nrichmaths.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The picture shows the plant after three weeks. How many branches will there be after three weeks? Four weeks &#8230;?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15985,"featured_media":0,"parent":72838,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71683","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-elementary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/71683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15985"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/71683\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/72838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}