



If six girls can plant 90 trees in a
day. How many trees can ten girls plant in a day?
If five men can dig a hole in one hour. How long will it take two men to dig
half a hole?
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"Cool idea. Worked magic. . . THANKS!" Petro Els, Greenmeadows School, NZ
"Ha ha, you had us fooled! We think, however, that theoretically the answer would be 75 mins. We can't believe you've tricked us like this. I now want to find a whole hole (or half a hole!) to jump in and hide from my clever pupils! Rawthorpe High School, Mr Heeley's Y7 brainboxes
"Really cool. Very good trick and wasn't expecting it!" Zara, Belmont Academy
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Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Happy Easter, love set 1 in da Hud xx"
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Good, achieved the results I required
Satisfactory
Didn't really capture the interest of the students
Not for me! I wouldn't use this type of activity.
This starter has scored a mean of 4.2 out of 5 based on 13 votes.
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