Windygoul Primary School

 World maths day Day-

Uniting the World in Numbers!

Wednesday 5 March

 We are taking part in a worldwide celebration of numbers in answering questions in mental arithmetic. The aim is to break 50 million questions answered over the challenge.

Your child should log in (with your help if needed) to http://www.worldmathsday.com/ and then use their own unique ID log in and password

How does the challenge work?

The World Maths Day challenge involves students from all over the world playing against each other in real-time battles of mental arithmetic using the Live Mathletics and VmathLive

Students have 60 seconds to answer as many mental arithmetic questions as possible. Be careful - 3 mistakes leads to a strike out!

Students score 1 point for every correct answer. Therefore the more students play, the more points they earn.

The level of difficulty of the questions varies according to age. We recommend that students as young as 5 years of age participate - they will attempt Addition to 10. Students are automatically matched against other students of a similar ability, i.e. stronger students play only against other stronger students. This is done via a ranking system (that looks at the last ten games) from Raging Rookie to Human Calculator!

The actual World Maths Day challenge commences the moment it is Wednesday 5 March west of the International Dateline and concludes 48 hours later when it is no longer 5 March anywhere in the world. For many countries this means that the event actually commences on Tuesday 4 March. The easiest way to confirm when the event starts according to your time zone is to check the countdown located on the website.

Students can practice for the event straight away!

It is all about participation! This is a truly international event with students participating from all across the world. Remember that all of these games will be played in real-time - that is your students will play live with students from all corners of the globe! Your students will learn more about world time zones and will discover that at certain times during the day they are more likely to play students from particular countries.