On the 3rd of March it will be world maths day. Pupils all over the world will be playing each other on maths games. Question sets come under four categories: addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. In each game, the student has one minute to answer as many of these questions of a random category as they can. The level of difficulty is approximately age appropriate.
When playing a game, the website will attempt to find other players of the same level to match the player against. If no matches are found, the player plays “against” a computer (which answers questions at pace similar to the past history of the student). After each game, the results are shown together with the competitors’ results.
Last year about 10,000,000 pupils signed in
In 2008 at least 5,172,844 pupils signed in
You only get 500 games and then you have to wait for the real game which will be tomorrow and the pupils will come in to the computer suite to play.
Its the forth year of world maths day.
by Owen Yr 5