Corn and Rice: the Solution that Seeks Problem[1]

 

 

 

 
   

While in Nepal as a Senior Fulbright Scholar for six weeks I observed the planting and growth of the rice and corn just outside my office window at Katmandu University.

 

Perhaps you can find the  mathematical model here?

 

  

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[1] Orey & Rosa (unpublished manuscript). Ethnomathematics as Pedagogical Action (EPA): Linking Culture and Mathematics by Using Mathematical Modeling (http://www.csus.edu/indiv/o/oreyd/papers/bookcontents.htm).