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We’ve got a fun holiday math challenge for students! After you complete your solution we encourage you to share it in the MathMirror forum. There are many patterns and ways to solve this problem. Try your own and then compare it to other students answers. 

Here is the problem:

Download the lyrics.  Then sing the song “The Twelve Days of Christmas”. How many gifts in all did my true love give to me? Don’t forget to post your solution in the MathMirror forum.

Download other students solutions to this problem.

UPDATE: Download Pascal’s Triangle the latest creative solution to this problem!