- View Large Screen Movie - - Email This Page -

Synopsis:

Flowers by the MillionsYou buy a dozen roses - he buys 3 million! Plus 1,250 sunflowers, 4,000 irises, and 5,000 calla lilies. In fact, he buys more than 100 million flowers a year. Introduce your students to someone who works with really big numbers.
Running time 5:05 minutes.

Problem Solving / Mathematics Activity:

A Valentine's Bouquet
Subject: Mathematics; Problem Solving
Topics: Decimal Operations; Think Backwards; Identify the Variables; Solve a Simpler Problem
Grades: 2 - 8

Images:

Click on the image for a larger version

Flowers by the Millions 1Flowers by the Millions 2Flowers by the Millions 3
Flowers by the Millions 4Flowers by the Millions 5Flowers by the Millions 6

Download the latest of the Macromedia Flash plugin. It's required. Flash 7 or greater is required.
Download it.