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We were delighted to visit Netherhall School in Cambridgeshire UK this week to congratulate Daniel W and his classmates for their huge success on World Maths Day! Daniel came 10^th in the UK and 56^th in the world for his age category, beating thousands of competitors and earning over 25,000 points during the event by working at lightning speed!

Congratulations to Daniel and everyone at Netherhall! We look forward to seeing you in the number one spot next year!

Mathletics was invited by the New Zealand Telecommunications Industry Group to participate in the Planet 2010 Conference held at Sky City Conference Centre in Auckland, New Zealand on March 12 & 13, 2010. The top 4 World Maths Day 2010 placegetters in New Zealand in each age category were brought to Auckland to participate in a play off for the title of New Zealand’s Top Mathlete.

Sarah and Jamie from Mathletics point out the exciting programme for the day.

The Conference was opened by Buzz Aldrin – the second man to walk on the moon.

We all got a real buzz out of meeting someone who had actually walked on the moon! Here is Ky, our Chief Architect, with the original moonwalker himself.

Comedian Dai Henwood was MC for the occasion. Here are the 5 – 8 year old World Maths Day winners competing in the finals in front of a large audience who could follow their progress on the big screen.

Many thanks for the Telecom Industry Group for enabling this event, HP for providing the laptops (with built in numeric keypads!) and Casio and Vodafone for providing awesome prizes – a great time was had by all!

The winners are -

5 – 8 Years
1st Evan M from Stanley Bay School
2nd Lily T from Kohi Terrace School
3rd Aisha F from Cockle Bay School

9 – 13 Years
1st James Kim from Northcross Intermediate
2nd Jimmy Lai from St George’s Preparatory School
3rd Liam Mulcahy from Lincoln High School

14 – 18 Years
1st Ashley Kim from Pinehurst School
2nd Monica Bae from Columba College
3rd Damien Lapham from Kavanagh College

Overall winner is Evan M from Stanley Bay School – Congratulations Evan!

When it comes to mathematics, Hervey Bay student David Andersen is in a class of his own and on top of the world for Australia.

The 15-year-old Fraser Coast Anglican College student is a dual world champion after retaining the World Maths Day title he won last year.

Read the full story here.

Amazing numbers – well done everyone!

Congratulations to everyone who took part in World Maths Day 2010.  Below is a table showing the medals and trophies awarded to the top performing countries.

Medal & Trophy Tally 2010

Falcons Girls love World Maths Day! Year Six have created videos promoting World Maths Day. They wrote, filmed and edited all by themselves, with no teacher input!

See the video here.

We have now finalised the Hall of Fame scores and certificates earned by all participants.

You can now print your certificates by signing in to your student or teacher centre.

Congratulations to all participants!

The World Maths Day Team

Students, Teachers and parents of the world. Take a deep breath and relax as the final seconds of World Maths Day 2010 tick away. It’s been a special event to be a part of and we’d  like to thank all of you, who have united to make this the global event it is. We’ve seen many records broken including, a Guinness World Record!There have been launches, sleepovers and other special events in schools as well as visits from government ministers, World Maths Day ambassadors going on TV and radio and Apple stores being flooded with World Maths Day students.

Thank you again, we’re looking forwarding to announcing our preliminary winners very shortly.

With just 45 minutes to go, the Mathometer is still racing!  Will anyone be able to take the leader’s from their top spots?

The race is really on for the classes, will anyone beat 5EA from Our Lady of Lourdes Primary School, UK who have the lead in the ages 5-8 category?

Will F1Y7 TeaM MC from Cempaka Schools, Malaysia hold on to the lead in the 9-13 category or can 4a Klass Zjorny from Narva Pahklimae Gumnaasium, Estonia catch them? It is SO close!

Cempaka Schools, Malaysia, are racing each other in the 14-18 category!  Who will win?

Keep watching, keep playing!

There’s just over an hour left of the World Math Day event and the Mathometer is still ticking! Over 565 Million correct answers and counting.

Congratulations to everyone who has been involved– you should all be very, very proud! And it’s not too early to start practicing for next year! World Math Day 2011 will be here before you know it.

Enjoy this last hour, everyone.