Earlier this week was World Maths Day. We took part in a world record attempt, alongside thousands of other schools worldwide, to answer the most sums in a day. I'm very pleased to announce that the world record was smashed with an amazing
452,682,682 sums correctly completed!
59 pupils at Earl Soham contributed
16,715 correct answers to that total, spending a total of 1385 minutes on task, answering a range of mental maths questions.
Not only did we see a new world record made, but every child improved their mental maths ability during the course of the day, with an average improvement of
262%!
The children who answered the most questions, answering more than a thousand questions each, are shown below:
The two top scorers, with 44 and 43 points in a round were:
And the two children who made the greatest improvement in their scores, with an increase of 4100% and 2900% respectively were:
59 pupils at Earl Soham contributed 16,715 correct answers to that total, spending a total of 1385 minutes on task, answering a range of mental maths questions.
