Large red, blue, purple and orange flowers with a curling green vine run across the top of Garden Math Buzz, and the prompt reads “DIG IN: Solve each one and plant your answer in the circle.” Twelve problems are arranged in two columns of six, every fact taken from the 2s through 5s with products from 4 to 15, and each answer goes into a plain open circle. Underlined blanks near the top ask for a GARDENER and a GARDEN name. Along the bottom are a red ladybug, a yellow-and-black bee with blue wings, a pink and purple butterfly, a green caterpillar, a brown snail and a strip of grass.
Kids who like bugs tend to sit down with this one without much coaxing, and the short problem count keeps the whole thing under a snack break. It pairs naturally with a spring or insect unit, though nothing on the page depends on the season, so it holds up as plain fact practice any month of the year.