There's not a lot to say about this. The children were in the
1980's and were the lower achievers and found it quite captivating.
I'm quite convinced that with a helper 6 year olds up wards can get
into this even if they only use two hoops.<br />
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If you use this as some staff inservice, it shows how important it
is to do this kind of activity for real and not just do it on
paper. The discussions are also very valuable - people do this
activity in so many different ways.<br />
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I'm pretty certain that the following results are correct for
producing 4, 5 & 6 in the hoopswith a certain
number of bean bags:- <br />
using 6 bags- 2 ways <br />
using 7 bags- 6 ways <br />
using 8 bags- 16 ways <br />
using 9 bags- 21 ways <br />
using 10 bags- 28 ways<br />
using 11 bags- 18 ways <br />
using 12 bags- 8 ways <br />
using 13 bags- 5 ways <br />
using 14 bags- 3 ways <br />
using 15 bags- 1 way <br />
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Now there's always something about numbers produced by doing an
activity like this. I'm convinced of that and pupils can catch the
excitement as you all find different things. I've not explored the
four hoops situation.<br />