This learning activity requires learners to use appropriate strategies and inverse operations to find unknown quantities with dependent and connected information/quantities.

The task is using known quantities and relative information about garden beds to find the unknown quantities of how many seeds have been planted in each garden bed.

It has been carefully designed to spark students' interests with real-world contexts, and ensures they will need to use problem solving skills and reasoning to justify their answers. Teachers can easily focus on helping their students to develop their resilience, resourcefulness and reflectiveness within this complex and unfamiliar question.