An Old Akkadian school text problem; only 4000 years old. I think they were interested in how to partition non-rectangular fields for inheritance purposes ... so for 2 brothers say, in the case of this problem.
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An Old Akkadian school text problem; only 4000 years old. I think they were interested in how to partition non-rectangular fields for inheritance purposes ... so for 2 brothers say, in the case of this problem.
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I can't even ... so I won't! Instead, let's make this an alternative headline competition.
I'll start:
Farmer rounds down sheep, instead of rounding them up.
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Plenary — Forming and Solving Equations #maths #mathsteacher #UKMathsChat #GCSEMaths #Plenary #MathsDiscussion #ProblemSolving #Reasoning #FormingAndSolvingEquations
Exit ticket — Working in the Cartesian Plane #maths #mathsteacher #UKMathsChat #GCSEMaths #ExitTicket #WorkingInTheCartesianPlane #LinearGraphs #Algebra #Reasoning #ProblemSolving
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