Monthly Mail and a busy first week in March

Madi had this article published in the March edition of the 'Monthly Mail'.

A BUSY FIRST WEEK IN MARCH

These education days:

1. WORLD MATHS DAY

2. WORLD SPELLING DAY (NEW)

3. WORLD BOOK DAY

bring the whole world together to do a very special thing.

You might hate books or maths or even spelling but the thing is what I’m about to tell you makes it fun no matter what.

World Book Day

Now I presume most of you have heard of World Book Day, which is on 3^rd March. Some of my friends that go to school dressed up as book characters for the day, and hopefully you will all have got your £1 vouchers to get a special free book or £1 off a book you choose. So I will concentrate on the other two which are World Maths Day (WMD) and World Spelling Day (WSD).

World Maths Day

WMD is whenever it is 1^st March anywhere in the world so for us that is from 28^th February (or 29^th if it is a leap year) to 2^nd March.

You answer maths questions as fast as you can and earn a point for each question you get right. There are 60 seconds in each of the games. You are only allowed 3 wrong answers before it is ‘GAME OVER’! You compete against children from all over the world, like Japan, Spain, Egypt and Australia etc...etc...etc...

You can play as many games as you want but the aim is to play 100 games. There are 5 levels each getting harder and harder and you can count 20 games from each level to your score.

My total score was 2585, which is pretty good, but the champion for the 4-7 year olds this year was from Eric from Australia who scored 6995. That means he got nearly 70 points in every game!

World Spelling Day

If you thought you had time to recover, here is another challenge for you. WSD is new this year and is on whenever it is 3^rd March anywhere in the whole wide world. It works the same as WMD but with spelling questions. This time I did it on my mum’s iphone. You can do it on computer or iphone or ipod or ipad. I found the spelling much easier than the maths, but I think it will be harder next year when I am in the 8-10 year old group.

I am quite cross because with doing it on the iphone I can’t find my total score so I’m not sure whether I will get my certificate.

If you would like play games of maths and spelling next year then what you do is you go to www.worldspellingday.com for spelling and if you want maths this is the one www.worldmathsday.com and then you register yourself. You can try it out all year to see what it is like.

Now before you think you are going to win a game against little ones you will be put in your PROPER age so you can go against other kids or teens your age and that will happen when you get registered.

Hope you manage to get on the web to do it and good luck for next year.

The good news is, that after writing the article we did find out how well she had done in World Spelling Day, 7th in the world for those using iPOD! And even better news is that there are plans for a World Science Day event next year too!