School: St Peter's, Phibsboro
- Location:
- Baile Phib, Co. Bhaile Átha Cliath
- Teacher: Ss. Breathnach
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- (continued from previous page)Example:-"How many prods of a beggarman's stick would gather a stone of spuds?""How many yards of buttermilk would make a pair of trousers for a goat?""How many thorns on an acre of whins?"Many of the traditional arithmetical problems current in rural Ireland may be traced back to Robert Recorde's Arithmetic a standard text book in the Seventeenth century.Rhyme:-"Multiplication is veration,
Divisions twice as bad
The Rule of Three it puzzles me,
And fractions set me mad".- Collector
- Séamus Breathnach
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