My daughters have been bugging me about World Math Day.
“Dad we need to use the computer on 5th March, because its World Math Day.”
So I asked whats involved.
Now both my daughters launch into an excited explanation,
You see we’re competiting with our friends to see who can answer the most mental arithmatic questions.
Last year more than, 287,000 kids participated the in the math quiz, from 98 countries.
It’s 24 hours of math helter skelter.
These kids are going for it. They want to smash the record they set last year, of getting 38,904,275 questions right.
As of today there are more than a million kids registered, from 20,000 schools and 165 countries. From as far way as Seycelles, Ethiopia, El Salvador and Romiania.
According to organiser Tim Power “the inaugural competition last year saw more than a quarter of a million children set a world record by collectively completeing 450 math questions per second.”
So you can see there a sense of excitement in our household. The clock is ticking, the countdown to this amazing math project, echo’s throughout the house.
I know my girls have set goals, of how many math question they will answer and get right. The winner last year answered 50,000 question. Can you believe that over million kids are going to strive to knock that benchmark off.
Mr Power reports “that while students participating in the competition improved an average of 30 per cent last year, the free event was all about making learning fun.”
Just in case your kids missed out on registering for this fun learning experience go to World Math Day you only have about 12 hours to go.
So what are you waiting for, get your kids to have a go.
If your kids liked these math challenges or your keen to have a go yourself then check out Amusements in Mathematics Making Math Fun
If you want to see how World Math Day went go to World Math Day Results are In
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