Can We Meet The Goal?
By: Emily
World Math Day is a website that began in 2007. In the 48 hours after it started, over 287,000 students from 98 countries took part in breaking the world record and answering 38,904,275 questions correctly. In 2009, the participation grew to 2 million students from 204 countries answering more than 400 million questions correctly. Can we beat that score this year?
Students on World Math Day play against other students around the world in live games that last 60 seconds each. Like any other activity, practice makes perfect. So, students practice daily with people from countries like India, Bermuda, Greece, and my favorite, Australia, to train for World Math Day. This year's World Math Day is on Wednesday, March 3, 2010. During World Math Day, students earn points for each correct answer. A recent poll on the website's blog shows that students think we can answer 1 billion questions correctly. So, its important that everybody logs on to www.worldmathday.com so we can reach our goal of 1 billion questions!
2. What do you like about the World Math Day website?
3. Do you have a goal for the month of February, while you train for March 3rd?
4. What are some of the countries you've competed against during the World Math Day tournaments?
What's your opinion?
1. Can we help meet the goal of answering 1 billion math questions?2. What do you like about the World Math Day website?
3. Do you have a goal for the month of February, while you train for March 3rd?
4. What are some of the countries you've competed against during the World Math Day tournaments?
Dear Chaparral 5th grade,
ReplyDeleteWorldMathDay.com is truely an amazing website to visit! Once you start playing the games, you can't get off! And the cool thing is, without realizing it, you are honing your math skills! It's really neat!
Sincerely,
Brendan Kim
Dear Emily and the 5th Grade Blog,
ReplyDeleteI agree with Brendan that WorldMathDay.com is a wonderful website. It's enjoyable to see what countries you compete against, and how well you do in completing the problems. The reason you won't be able to leave your computer when playing on this website is because you either want to keep your high score or get a better score. When you rank in second, third, or fourth, you try your hardest to become first. Therefore, completing more problems and becoming a better math student.
Your blogging friend,
Danielle
Dear 5th Grade Blog,
ReplyDeleteI think that World Math Day is realy neat. I have been on it many times and it is still fun. So far I have gone against people from USA, Ireland, The United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia. It is very very fun.
Sincerely,
Michael
Dear Mrs. Coro's class,
ReplyDeleteI really believe that the idea of World Math Day is fantastic! Not only do we practice our math skills, but we get to compete with children from around the world! It is also a great way to practice. Now that we've started writing down all the countries we compete with, I think we'll get all the countries and schools that are taking the challenge.
Sincerely,
Rockey G.