"1,2,3, Boys and Girls, Ladies and Gentlemen Stop"; and with that the World Maths Day 2009 officially ended. Thank yous and Congratulations were all over the web to all the participants and teachers behind them. The sponsors Voyager and UNICEF were all praises for the 48-hour web based Math challenge of historical proportions.
Total participants: 2,001,570
Number of countries: 204
Total questions answered in 48 hours: 452,681,681
Total number of schools – 20,000
Top 3 Individual Students
1st: Kaya G - Team Australia - 129,106
2nd: David M - Aloha College, Spain - 119,843
3rd: David A - Fraser Coast Anglican College, Australia - 115,571
Top 3 Individual Classes
1st: F2 Team A - Cempaka Schools, Malaysia - 1,004,202
2nd: F3 Team A - Cempaka Schools, Malaysia - 975,339
3rd: F4 Team A - Cempaka Schools, Malaysia - 818,083
Just for the thrill of it....
I checked in on the world event twice and the third time would be the final result. Here's how it was at:
10:04 PM 07: 55: 36 to finish
10,399 - users online
Total CORRECT answers 406,803,759
12:21 AM 05: 38: 49 to finish
7289 - users online
Total CORRECT answers 418,402,959
Afterthought....
Where was United States? Up to midnight last night, the top US class was hanging on to 10th place and when it's all over it dropped to 17th place. Still not bad considering that there were 20,000 schools in total.
The top 10 classes were all Malaysia, except the 7th placer which was Tevitol High class 9 from Turkey. Like any international event, flag Malaysia was all over. along with Turkey.
Two new words I learned: mathometer & mathletes
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