St Ives

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Bethany Watkinson, Queen Elizabeths Highschool
Tuesday, February 26, 2008

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"As I was going to St Ives" is a traditional nursery rhyme which is generally thought to be a riddle. The earliest known published version of it dates to around 1730. The answer to the riddle is usually said to be one: the person reciting the rhyme is the only one who is explicitly stated as going to St Ives, and everyone else met by them assumed to be travelling the opposite direction. [Wikipedia]


	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).

Students could use the Internet to find other mathematical puzzles, probles and riddles which have an interesting history.,

St Ives

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