Pumpkin Math
1. Does the size of the pumpkin make any difference to the
number of seeds found inside?
2. Does the number of lines outside of the pumpkin related to
the number of seeds inside?
3. Does the number of lines outside the pumpkin have anything to do with the size of the
pumpkin?
4. How many pumpkin patch questions can you think of that have a solution of 73?
5. Estimate the weight of the pumpkin, then weight it. How close were you?
6. How many different pumpkin faces can you make using only rectangles, triangles and circles?
7. What is the diameter of your pumpkin?
8. Does a larger diameter of a pumpkin relate to a heavier weight of the pumpkin?
9. If each pumpkin seed was worth 10 cents, how much is your pumpkin worth? What if each
seed was worth 7 cents?
10. Estimate whether your waistline is as big, bigger or smaller than the pumpkin’s diameter.
11. 2 mothers and 2 daughters went to buy pumpkins. Each of them brought home a pumpkin
which totaled 3 pumpkins, how come just 3?
12. You rolled your pumpkin as far away from you as you could but it keeps coming back to you,
how come?
Answers:
11. A grandmother, a mother and her daughter went shopping for pumpkins. (The grandmother
is the mother’s mother and the mother is the daughter’s mother, therefore even though we
have 2 mothers and 2 daughters, only 3 people went.
12. You rolled it uphill.