Scoil: St Peter's, Phibsboro

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1. Traditional Problems and Questions

   

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   Interest in problems, many of the connundrum type, but some genuinely mathematical was common among the older people of the Broomfield district some thirty years ago. It was undoubtedly a remnant of the once widespread interest in and love for learning whihc was a marked characteristic of the Gaelic peasantry of olden times.
   Some of these traditional problems were in verse form:-
   Example:-
   "How many fat chickens at three pence apiece
   Will cover an area all over with geese
   The geese to be sold at two & ninepence a pair
   An every goose to occupy one foot square"?

   The above problem was a common mathematical "poser" in the Laragh district Castleblayney, where Irish survived as spoken language among older people down to the first decade of the present century.

   "Nonsense" Problems:-

   Problems of the "Nonsense" type were by no means uncommon in the rural districts of Monaghan

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