
If A costs 1p, B costs 2p, etc can you find a word which costs
exactly 50p?
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apple, animal, sold"
bloat swag fight paul"
Stephannie found her name "STEF" is also 50!"
When, Joy, Too, Low, Yet, Bendy and Easy.
We are currently looking for a sentence with only 50p words."
'Joy' Amber Gannon
'Tomb' Mr Smith
'Nobs' Elliot Wright"
pink, when, coals, oval, corn, snob, grip, role, nope.
Mostly found by Catherine but the rest of the class had fun trying to find words which had not yet been submitted."
Well done Joe"
bush, chose, june, snob and nope."
apple
Mrs"
So we are the best!"
All worth 50 pence each."
Yet, Jiggle, Graph, Cubes, Circle, Chart and Meals"
"Paul", "Joy", "Cubes", "June", "Vine", "Doze" and "Apple".
My first year class, 111, got "Lino" and "Too" on top of those!"
BETHAN
BELLS
WILF
OWL
LOW"
oot,too,yet,baths,lion,open,nope,jacky,yip,donald,boxed,braces,any,
animal,time,owl,yet,bring,apple,digger,jiggle,graph,cubes,circle,chart,meals,when,joy,tomb,america,snake,low,learn,sold,clot,lands...
Wow, that took some time. Good starter though!"
Apple, Digger, Pink, When, Gears, America, Wind, June, Mango, Away, Jacky."
June, too, lion, apple, wind, nope, yet, Samie C (Samuel Croker is in our class), America, numb"
Tim found 'TOMB'
Frankie found that 'FRANK' costs 50p
Kirsty and Tom found 'APPLE'
Jack found 'LOW'"
Mr Matthews."
ANIMAL, WIND, LION, APPLE, PAUL, TOMB, YET, MANGO, TABBY, TOO, JOY, JACKY, LOCKED."
LOIN
LEARN
GARLIC
MARIAH
TOO
JOY
LION
SPAN
AMERICA
PINK
APPLE .. in two minutes!"
Room 20
Elm Park School
Auckland, New Zealand."
8O1 at Bridgnorth Endowed loved it!
TOO
OWL
SAT
JOY
OPEN
APPLE
BUSH
YET
FEEDING."
Lion
Bits
Too
Snake
7x2 Albion High School."
8Y1 found MISHA, KENT, LENS, MASHED, BENNIF (a surname) and GO MAN!"
Rhys found TOO
Tom found TOMB
Becky found YET
Olivia found LOW
Shannon found OWL
Sam found NOPE."
Hannah Clapinson found TOO
Sammy Jones found OPEN
Jack Bradshaw-Lamb found JOY and JACKY!"
1P7 Calderglen High School
Miss Sandilands Maths class!"
Anyway, I found;
bush,
america,
numb,
faint,
too,
vain and vine.
I'd put my cell phone number on here but I ain't got much time for speakeratin', not to boyz anyway... my daddy wouldn't be a happy bunny.
Thanks for readin' ya'll, not many people have time to listen to me, a humble country girl from sweet america. I am however home-schooled, does that make this comment a problem. I hope not. I'd love for people to read something that I wrote on the internet, publicly. It would make a change from being ignored as usual. Well, this has taken up a lot of my math time, and I need a daily 10 minutes. To keep up my high grade of D average."
Annoying Deen found Too
Amandeep found Tomb
Karima found Boxed."
Martin found TOO
Oliver found PANS and JOY
Ajanthan found JOJO."
Zain found APPLE and ZAIN."
Jake Southcombe found 'Wind'
Ruth Coomber found 'lion'
Holly Finlay found 'apple'
We liked it :)."
Smaller words found were too, apple, joy, away, pone, nope, open and yet."
Katie found APPLE
Peter found JOY
and Alex found CLARKE! :)."
William found SHIN
Sophie B found TOO
Phoebe found SNEAK."
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.
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