Before our winter break, we had a sing along, and at one point we sang the familiar favourite, “The Twelve Days of Christmas.” We got to wondering, if you were the person in the song receiving all those gifts from your true love, after the 12th day, how many gifts would you have received?

image by Leo Reynolds https://www.flickr.com/photos/lwr/with/71774909/

It’s an interesting problem. We had to spend a lot of time working on our understanding of it. We found it depended on what counted as a gift. We ended up discussing a few other questions as well. We also found that keeping track of our thinking and our solutions got tricky, and organising how we recorded our ideas made a big difference.

If you have some thoughts to contribute toward tackling this question, please feel free to add them in a comment. Happy New Year!