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Template:Firstbox As I Was Going to St. Ives is a nursery rhyme which has been around since the 1700s, though the subject has been thought to originate from the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus.
It was performed as a song in the first season of Sesame Street. Two Anything Muppets, a boy (performed by Jim Henson) and a girl (Frank Oz), test each other's wits as he tries to get her to solve a difficult math problem. She ends up turning the tables on him by asking him how many were going the other way.