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Ballykeel Primary School & Nursery Unit

Spiky Problems

22nd Mar 2019

P7 had a 'spiky' problem to solve. On a 7 spike abacus in pairs they had to make different numbers using only 2 beads. There are 28 possibilities and using the strategy of try and adjust or following a pattern they found 14 different answers in the time available.