IT'S WORLD MATHS DAY

Today, March 3, is World Maths Day!


It is an web event where you compete against other kids around the world in mental maths challenges.

Taking part in World Maths Day helps you develop speed and accuracy with your mental maths facts.
There are over 2 million students from 37,000 schools in 200 countries taking part and every question we all answer correctly, helps us try to break last years record of 452,681,681 correctly answered questions.

Each of us had two 20 minute game sessions over the day. Most of our competitors were from the USA, Canada, England, New Zealand and of course Australia but some of us competed against kids from Hong Kong, Thailand and Malaysia too.


It was really tricky typing in our answers quickly but our practice on Mathletics has helped and it became easier with each game. Many of us won most of our games and some of us even achieved the level of 'human calculator'. By 3:00pm, some of us had played over 50 games!


The video below shows the fun we had taking part in World Maths Day and do you know what the best part is?
We get to do it all again tomorrow because it will still be March 3 in other parts of the 
world!

ARE YOU ON MATHLETICS?

WE ARE...AND WE LOVE IT!

Mathletics makes learning Maths fun.

The activities and games help us understand maths concepts and Mathletics LIVE helps us become quicker and more accurate with our mental maths facts. It is really cool to practice our maths facts as we compete against others around the world.

Mrs M sets us tasks to work through. We
can keep track of how we are going and if we don't understand something, we can go to Support to be stepped through the task.


We can also go to Rainforest Maths and play some games there to help us understand concepts better.

Once we have completed all of our set tasks, then we can go onto Mathletics LIVE to compete in mental maths challenges against children from around the world.

Every task we complete earns us points and we are awarded certificates along the way.
After 2 weeks, 16 of us have been awarded one or more bronze certificates for earning a 1000 or more points in a week.
Jack was our Week 1 Mathlete of the Week and Malachy was our Mathlete for Week 2.

We'd love to know if you are using Mathletics too.
What you love best about it?
What do you find challenging?

WORLD MATHS DAY

We are excited to be participating in WORLD MATHS DAY on March 3.

It is a day when children and adults around the world compete in LIVE mental maths challenges. It's a fun way for us to practice our number facts.

Today we received our log in details so now we can get ready for the big day by practicing at home and at school.

We can't wait.

Are you or your class participating in World Maths Day?

Maybe one of us will be competing against YOU!