{"id":74393,"date":"2020-06-24T15:12:09","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T19:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/?page_id=74393"},"modified":"2020-06-24T15:12:09","modified_gmt":"2020-06-24T19:12:09","slug":"the-magic-plant","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/learn\/elementary-home\/elementary-2\/math\/math-grades-1-3\/whats-new\/the-magic-plant\/","title":{"rendered":"The Magic Plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Problem<\/h5>\n<h3>Materials:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>paper<\/li>\n<li>pencil<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On Friday at 9 am, the magic plant was 2 centimetres tall.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-74394 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/06\/MagicPlant1.gif\" alt=\"a small plant with a single stalk and two leaves\" width=\"80\" height=\"110\" \/><br \/>\nEach day, the plant\u2019s height doubled and it was two times as tall as the day before.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-74395 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/06\/MagicPlant2.gif\" alt=\"a plant with a single stalk and 6 leaves\" width=\"80\" height=\"228\" \/>How tall was it on Monday at 9 am?<\/p>\n<h3>Possible Hints\/Questions:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Maybe you could draw a number line that goes up and down to help show how much the plant grew?<\/li>\n<li>What does \u201ctwo times as tall\u201d mean?<\/li>\n<li>How tall was the plant on Saturday at 9am?<\/li>\n<li>How tall was the plant on Sunday at 9am?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Possible Extension:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>How tall do you predict the plant will be on Thursday? Find out if you are right.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Adapted from <a href=\"https:\/\/nrich.maths.org\/145\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">nrich.maths.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can you predict how much the plant will grow? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15985,"featured_media":0,"parent":72818,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74393","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-elementary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/74393","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=74393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/74393\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/72818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}