Open Maverick Numbers Document on iPad

My wife is unable to open Numbers documents on her iPad (iOS 7) that I have created for her on my iMac (OS 10.9 Mavericks). Message says 'Spreadsheet can't be imported... ...created with an unsupported application version'. She has downloaded the latest version of Numbers from the App Store on her iPad to cover that aspect, but message persists.
Surely this must be possible, but what needs to be done?

I am having the exact same issue. I keep everything on dropbox for work and since the updates to iOS and Maverick they are not compatible. The Numbers app on my iPhone 5 is 2.0 and the Numbers app on my iMac is 3.0, which is clearly why it doesn't work, but why would they not update both, I thought that was the whole point of being able to read and update the same documents on multiple devices through different platforms..?
Any help would be much appreciated, I desperately need this facility for my work!
Thanks

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