starter · ages 9–11 · 15 minutes

The School Garden Plot Plan

Four classes each planted one vegetable in one raised bed. The beds are numbered 1 through 4 from the gate. Match each class to its vegetable, bed number, and watering day.

NameDate

class × vegetable

	beans	carrots	peas	tomatoes
Class A
Class B
Class C
Class D

class × bed

	bed 1	bed 2	bed 3	bed 4
Class A
Class B
Class C
Class D

class × watering_day

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday
Class A
Class B
Class C
Class D

Clues

carrots are in bed 1
tomatoes are in bed 2
Class C planted tomatoes
Class D planted beans
peas are watered Thursday
bed 4 is watered Wednesday
Class B waters exactly two days after Class A in the Monday–Thursday sequence
bed 3 is not watered Monday
Class A did not plant peas

Need a nudge? Start with the carrots and the tomatoes. Both have a bed clue. Then use the watering days to separate the remaining two classes.

Print at 100% scale on US Letter or A4. The grid fits on one page. The answer key is on page 2.

Answer key · PZ-001

The School Garden Plot Plan

Class	Vegetable	Bed	Watering Day
Class A	carrots	bed 1	Tuesday
Class B	peas	bed 3	Thursday
Class C	tomatoes	bed 2	Monday
Class D	beans	bed 4	Wednesday

Verification: 13,824 possible one-to-one assignments tested; exactly one solution passed every encoded clue.