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We came across this school’s most excellent website with a great World Maths Day feature. Hats off to Parkfield Community School in Saltley, Birmingham for putting so much effort into World Maths Day 2010. Our favourite photo has to be a Dalek from the TV series Dr Who holding a World Maths Day Poster.  Check it all out for yourself at the link below:

http://www.parkfield.bham.sch.uk/event-worldmaths10.htm

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!

Education Minister Andrew Barr attended Charnwood – Dunlop Primary School in the ACT on Friday 26 March to present World Maths Day certificates and medals.  Those students being recognised included Afzal A from Stromlo High School who was the top student overall in the ACT and 10th in Australia for the 14-18 category. Another notable achievement was that of teacher Rod Grieve, also of Stromlo High School who came 75th in the world on the Teacher/Parent hall of Fame.

Top ACT student Afzal A, teacher Rod Grieve, Minister Andrew Barr, 3P Learning CEO Tim Power and top students from Charnwood - Dunlop Primary School.

Students at Micklefield School, South Africa were presented with medals and certificates to award their outstanding achievements in World Maths Day 2010.

Back row – Angelica P ( 3rd in the country in 9-13 age group) with Rob Masefield. Front row – Amaarah E (4th), Isabella W (7th) and Isabella B (8th) in the 5 – 8 age group.

Back Row – Angelica P, Holly J and Rob Masefield. Front Row – Amaarah E, Isabella W, Isabella B and Josie R.

Other girls who did exceptionally well, but did not come in the top 10 were Holly J, Sophie B and Josie R who all received certificates.

Recently, Iain Smith (3P Learning’s National Manager for Scotland) attended a special assembly held at Hamilton College Junior School to present J7 pupil Olivia G with a certificate and an iPod touch to commemorate her term as our UK Mathletics Ambassador.

Well done to Olivia and her team – they did a great job to raise awareness of Mathletics, putting posters up around the school and the local area and featured on REAL Radio on the morning of World Maths Day.

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!

As we all know, World Maths Day is a truly global event – and nowhere was this more brilliantly demonstrated than at the British International School of Belgrade, in Serbia. The top scoring student at the school is originally from Angola, the second from Japan, and third from Serbia – global winners for a truly global competition!

Students at the school answered over 350,000 questions (and the teachers put on a great show with over 60,000 mathematical questions correctly answered during this event!!!)

Deputy Principal Neil Howie said “The students and staff thoroughly enjoyed the event, and playing against students throughout the world. There will be a special award ceremony for our outstanding students, one of whom achieved over 13,000 correct answers durint the event. We can’t wait until next year’s even bigger event!”

See you next year, Serbia!

Well done everyone for breaking last year’s record! I think we all did very well. I’d like to congratulate my fellow team Australia ambassadors Kaya G, for coming 1st in the 9-13 year old catagory and Tatiana D, for coming 2nd in the 14-18 year old. well done!

After all this excitement, I think I need to relax a bit or maybe I should do more maths homework for next year’s World Maths Day event.

I wish every one good luck for next year and may we break this year’s record next year.

GOOD LUCK!!!

Adrian E, World Maths Day Ambassador

Hi Everyone,

Just a quick thank you to the organizers for World Math Day!  Our carnival was awesome!  “Math is fun!” was the biggest comment from the participants.

“It was all about math and it was good!”

“Math is exciting”.

“We learned we need math for a lot of things”.

“It was nice of [the grade fours] to help us with our math”

“It was worth missing our gym class”

“The questions were fun!” said the grade two class.

Top Northland School Division No. 61 prizes are: $100 for top score in each of the four divisions, $75 for second in each of the four divisions and $50 for third in each of the four divisions. [With prize money from our AISI grant].  News about the winners coming soon!!

I was flown to Calgary and had dinner with the other ambassadors from Canada and it was really cool!  We went everywhere in a white limousine and had dinner at the Calgary Tower!  Did you know that it spins around when you eat?  I met people from Ontario and Alberta and Saskatchewan.  We went to Breakfast TV where two of the ambassadors got to go on TV and play on the World Math Day site.  We went to a school and we practiced on their computers for World Math Day.  After that we went to dinner in the Calgary Tower.  I had soup and fries.  We were close to the windows and I could look outside when we ate.  The trip was exciting.

As ambassador, it has been a lot of work but it also has been fun.  I hope you enjoyed World Math Day.

Special thanks,

Kierra G

Mathletics Ambassador for Northland School Division No. 61, Alberta, Canada

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.