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Amit from Visakha Valley School in South East India wrote;
Here are the words that various youngsters suggested;
Clayton also from St. Peter's College
Never-No-Unlikely-Depends-Maybe-Possibly-Probably-Likely-Yes.Josh from The Hall
Never going to happen-Almost definitely can-Not likely-Possibly-Maybe-I'll think about it-You almost certainly can-You definitely can
Parnia from Servite R.C.School
Never-No-Probably Not-Let's see-Maybe-Probably-Yes-Anytime.Andrew from Melbourn Village College
Never-Probably not-I don't think so-I doubt it-Maybe-We'll see-Hopefully-Probably-Almost certainly-Yes.Six pupils from Burford wrote
Never-No way-Oh no-no-I don't know-We will see-Maybe-Perhaps-You might-Probably-Ok-Of course-You may-Oh yes-Yes you can-Sure-Definitely-Yes.Mila from Ricards Lodge HIgh School got the ideas sorted out along a line like this.
This was an interesting idea, well done Mila for thinking of this. From Lasswade Schoold in Scotland we had the following list of words in the Scots Language.
nae chance - dinnae think sae-nae likely-dinnae ken-A 'hink sae - Aw" richt then- AyeWell done all of you.
Maybe teachers looking at these may see some value in having similar discussions in various areas of Mathematics to find out what pupils see as the associated words they know. For example when working on temperature, "hot, OK, muggy, nice . . . . . ."
What can you say about the child who will be first on the playground tomorrow morning at breaktime in your school?
There are three versions of this challenge. The idea is to change the colour of all the spots on the grid. Can you do it in fewer throws of the dice?