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"We would have preferred this starter if we had had enough ice cream scoops to show all possibilties!"

Ice Cream, 8X1 Durrington High School
Thursday, October 18, 2007

"Are you sure of the answer? If there are 6 flavours and 2 scoops per cone there should be 6x5/2 = 15 combinations. Or what am I missing?"

Eugenie, Greys Education Centre
Thursday, October 25, 2007

"Thanks Eugenie for pointing out the error in the original answer below. It has now been corrected though we are assuming that two scoops of the same flavour is allowed."

Transum,
Friday, October 26, 2007

"We spent the whole lesson investigating triangular numbers and constructing formulae from this lesson starter. Our class enjoyed it very much!"

Mrs Simpson and 2D1, Torry Academy, Aberdeen
Wednesday, November 07, 2007

"This starter was a bit disapointing because there was not enough scoops of ice-cream and if there was there would not of been enough cones for what we came up with so I will not be using this again."

Miss Nimmo, Park View Community School, Chester-le-Street
Saturday, November 24, 2007

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Answer

(assuming two scoops of the same flavour is allowed)

What if there were 7 different flavours?

What if there were x different flavours?


	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=ice

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