World Maths Day

World Maths Day (known as "World Math Day" in American English) is one of the world’s largest global educational events, aiming to lift numeracy standards in a fun and meaningful way. World Maths Day takes place on the first Wednesday in March. In 2009 World Maths Day will be on Wednesday 4 March.

The event is free of charge for both schools and students. Registrations are completed online at the [http://www.worldmathsday.com/ World Maths Day] website. Registrations for 2009 will commence on the site in February 2009.

About the event

Questions set 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 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. The game will be automatically lost by getting three incorrect answers.

Students can play as many times as they like over the period from both home and school. Connectivity to the internet is all that is required to play.

The event is run using the [http://www.mathletics.com.au/ Mathletics Game Engine] and is hosted by Australian e-Learning company [http://www.3PLearning.com.au/ 3P Learning] together with [http://www.voyagerlearning.com/ Voyager Expanded Learning] .

World Maths Day 2008

In 2008, the event occurred on 5 March. Students from over 150 countries combined to correctly answer 182,455,169 mathematics questions. This broke the previous record of 38,904,275 correct answers.

During World Maths Day 2008 there were 5,172,844 sign ins over the 48 hour period.

2008 results

Leading students

#Leher Bhandari, Manav Sthali School, India: 65199 correct answers
#Rock T, George Heriot's School, Edinburgh United Kingdom: 62273 correct answers
#Kaya G, The McDonald College, Australia: 59300 correct answers
#Chris T, The English College, United Arab Emirates: 57375 correct answers
#Tian Wei Branden K, Garden International School, Malaysia: 56643 correct answers
#Joshua S, Dulwich College, China: 50853 correct answers
#Abhishek Gosavi , International Pioneers School: 50334 correct answers
#Crystal L, Team Australia: 49321 correct answers
#Pratyush G, Delia School of Canada, Hong Kong: 47181 correct answers
#Apichet Sarnath, Team Thailand: 45553 correct answers

Leading classes

#Class 0801PE4, Taylor's University College, Malaysia: 299708 correct answers
#Class 0701PM469, Taylor's University College, Malaysia: 222047 correct answers
#Class 4A, Australian International School, United Arab Emirates: 189075 correct answers
#Class Mr. Bourne's 5th Grade Class, Creek View Elementary, United States of America: 171662 correct answers
#Class Year 6, Whingate Primary, Great Britain: 170139 correct answers
#Class Esteva's Explorers"', Sweetwater Elementary, United States of America: 169199 correct answers
#Class 4abc, Geodetska Tehnicka Skola, Croatia: 138750 correct answers
#Class Windy Gifted 1, Windy Ridge K-8 School, United States of America: 135835 correct answers
#Class FORM VII, Manav Sthali School, India: 124634 correct answers
#Class Algebra 2 - 3, American School of Guatemala, Guatemala: 122601 correct answers

Technical issues during World Maths Day 2008

The extremely large volume of traffic to the site (over 5 million sign ins during the 48 hours) resulted in some users being able to access the site at various stages of the event. As a response to this additional free access to the site was given for a further 10 days. There was also an extension in the qualifying period for class prizes.

2007 results

Leading students

# Stefan L, Christian Alliance P.C.Lau Memorial International School, Hong Kong

# Kelvin H, Taunton School, United Kingdom

# Ana Catarina V, CLIP, Portugal

# Simone C, Newlands Intermediate, New Zealand

# Maoki G, International Christian Academy of Nagoya, Japan

# Shoaib Akram S, Beaconhouse School System, Gulshan Cambridge Branch, Pakistan

# Adriel T, Overseas Family School, Singapore

# Yiannis Z, The English School Nicosia, Cyprus

# Nicolae F, Mark Twain International School, Romania

# Ross R, Team Australia, Australia

Leading schools

# Christian Alliance P.C.Lau Memorial International School, Hong Kong
# Island School, Hong Kong
# The English School Nicosia, Cyprus
# XV. GIMNAZIJA, Croatia
# Beaconhouse School System, Pakistan
# Crescent Elem-Jr High School, United States
# Saltus Grammar School, Bermuda
# Beaconhouse School System, Gulshan Cambridge Branch, Pakistan
# Needham Market Middle School, United Kingdom
# Montsaye Community College, United Kingdom

Participating countries

"Albania, Angola, Australia, Austria, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belgium, Bermuda, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei, Cote d'Ivoire, Canada, Canary Islands, China, Colombia, Congo, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Gabon, Gambia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Isle of Man, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kuwait, Lebanon, Lesotho, Libya, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Malta, Mexico, Morocco, Mozambique, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Northern Mariana Islands, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Republic of Korea, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Seychelles, Singapore, Slovakia, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Turkey, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uzbekistan, Venezuela and Zimbabwe"

External links

* [http://www.worldmathsday.com/ Official website]
* [http://www.3PLearning.com.au/ 3P learning website]
* [http://www.voyagerlearning.com/ Voyager Expanded Learning website]