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"My year 10 class think that the puzzle is quite clever because it fools you into a quick answer, but then you start see the puzzle in a bit more depth and more rectangles appear.

We think the answer is 26, but are not 100% sure.

Neil,Lewis,Josh,Connor,Caiman."

Mr B Boxall, Saffron Walden County High School
Thursday, November 23, 2006

 

"My year 8 class got 26 rectangles, so yes, you are correct."

Mrs A Davies, Congleton High School
Wednesday, November 29, 2006

 

"My year 7 class found 26 also so we agree too! It's 26!"

7yM1, Dene Magna
Thursday, November 30, 2006

 

"We go to the highfield school and are in Year 8, we think that the answer was 26. At first it was difficult becuase we couldn't see the angles in the rectangles, but once we double checked we realised what the answer was."

Year 8x2, Highfield School
Thursday, November 30, 2006

 

"I was workin with a Year 5 class and they managed to find 26 as well. I am very suprised I though there were only 17 myself but then I looked closely and then I thought to see if my class could figure out how many they could but the thing is it took them nearly the whole hour lesson to figure it out!"

Angela Camellari, Cubitt Town School
Friday, October 19, 2007

 

"26 is the answer I did it with my teacher and my class. My teacher's name is Miss Alexander. First we thought it was 5 or 6 or 9 but then we did it properly by drawing a few extra lines and we finished at 26 then we scrolled down and the answer was 26."

Ben Sassoon, Michael Sobell Sinai School Year 4
Friday, October 19, 2007

 

"Our year 11 class found 27 hahaha"

MR OReilly, Ryde high school year 11
Monday, November 05, 2007

 

"Year 9Y3 at St Cleres school can see 17 rectangles!!!"

St Cleres School, Miss Denniss
Friday, November 09, 2007

 

"To begin with I was really struggling to keep track of what I had counted and what I hadn't. I read the comments about 26 rectangles and couldn't find them. After a good 15 minutes I found a way that I could keep track and found 26. I think the people who found 27 must have counted something twice (as I also did at one point when I counted 28!)"

Mr. Clark, Rawarsh Community School
Friday, November 09, 2007

 

"Year10b4 at Whitby High think that its 26 as well. Especially Liam who is usually wrong. Nice puzzle! "

10b4, The Port
Wednesday, November 14, 2007

 

"A good puzzle. Fatma and Chelsea got 26 too. Thankyou"

Mr Booth + year10, Whitby
Wednesday, November 14, 2007

 

"We only did it as a 5 minute starter and got 23!"

10x1, Shavington High
Friday, November 16, 2007

 

"At first we thought the answer was 14, but we searched further and now have figured that the answer is possibly 27. "

Year 6, Roundwood primary school
Friday, November 16, 2007

 

"When you look closer to the pattern you can see more than meets the eye to start with. I found 26 rectangles, so I'm gathering its right but I'm not 100% sure!"

Skye Whittaker (Student), Gosnells Primary School
Friday, November 16, 2007

 

"We found 28 and its correct!
Year 7 Middlefield school Gainsborough."

Mr Conway, MIddlefield School Gainsborough
Friday, November 16, 2007

 

"We think 28 and we are clever so we are probably right. Please, please please put us on website and Mr Heeley will donate £5 to Children in Need!"

Mr Heeley's Klever Krew, Rawthorpe High, Huddersfield
Friday, November 16, 2007

 

"Mrs Myers' ace Year 9 class at Woldgate College got 26! But all our heads hurt now!"

Mrs Myers, Woldgate College
Friday, November 16, 2007

 

"My year eight are very loud - but by some miracle they seemed to get 26 - altough at one point someone found 58! I think they had double vision!"

Mr Hanning, Cressex Community School
Friday, November 16, 2007

 

"Having spent the weekend working on this, we are now past caring! We got 26 mostly and the odd 27. Jason got 24. Well done Jason."

Mr. H, Mary Hare School
Monday, November 19, 2007

 

"I have done this with 5 different classes and my 9x2 wouldn't give up until we finally found how to get more than 14!"

Miss Davey 9x2, St Andrews High
Monday, November 19, 2007

 

"We also got 26 so I think the person who got 27 must have counted one twice. We found it hard at first and couldn't work out how there was so many there because at first we only counted 12 and then we kept going and managed to find 26."

j.s, wps
Wednesday, November 21, 2007

 

"My year 7 class (set 2) got 26 and it is 26!"

Ms Shaheen, Greenford High School
Friday, November 23, 2007

 

"Well my year 10 class found '52' but only if you look really closely. it didnt take us long to figer it out it was just the case of counting them all and making sure we had not counted any more than once. so over all we found 52."

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

 

"We found 27 in our Year 9 Class."

Dulcie Rutter and Elle Benjamin, St Benedicts, Bury St Edmunds
Tuesday, November 27, 2007

 

"Class thinks 26 or 27 but sir only found 25!"

Mr McG and Year 9, Parkside Cullingworth
Friday, November 30, 2007

 

"We found 25 rectangles and cant see where everyone found the extra one!"

Class 1D, Linwood High School Renfrewshire
Tuesday, January 29, 2008

 

"We got 27 and we did it for 10 minutes max. seems we are the best.. anyone think they can beat it? good luck, you'll need it!"

Mr. Ditta and 10B, Stokesley School :)
Friday, May 23, 2008

 

"We found 26 rectangles"

X9, Oakwood Park Grammar School
Tuesday, June 03, 2008

 

"We have found 26. Anyone who has found 27 or 28 is talking rubbish!"

Patrick Hillman, Year 8 (1) BIS, Jakarta, Indonesia
Wednesday, September 03, 2008

 

"HELP!! I really can't see 26 rectangles, stuck on something like 15! One comment seemed to say that your are allowed to add in lines?! Is this true? Can someone please help me to see the 26 so I can help my class!"

Useless Mathmatician, Birmingham
Thursday, September 18, 2008

 

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