Hole in One

A Maths Starter of The Day

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
Wednesday, March 19, 2008

 

"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!
Happy Easter, love set 1 in da Hud xx"

Rawthorpe High School, Mr Heeley's Y7 brainboxes
Wednesday, March 19, 2008

 

"Really cool. Very good trick and wasn't expecting it!"

Zara, Belmont Academy
Wednesday, March 19, 2008

 

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Answers

150 trees

It is impossible to dig half a hole!


Teacher, do your students have one to one access to computers?

Whether your students each have a TabletPC or share a desktop PC, this activity lends itself to eLearning (Engaged Learning).

Here's the URL which will take
them to a student version of this activity.

http://www.transum.org/go/?to=Unitary