The International School Of Penang (Uplands)

World Maths, World Costumes.Year 1 guessing how many beads...World Maths DayWorld Maths Day takes place for students all around the worldcompeting against each other with mental maths problems on aprogram called Mathletics. This year it took place on Tuesday,01 March. The Primary students were very excited as they arrived toSchool in a traditional costume from their country or clothes torepresent the colours of their flag. Each class was allocated a timein the ICT room for children to log onto Mathletics and competeagainst other students worldwide. At the end of the day each classhad a certificate to award the student with the highest percentageof accuracy played throughout their games.Alongside the Mathletics there was a competition for each yeargroup. Years 1-3 had to guess the amount of objects in a jar. Theclosest estimation from Year 1 went to Azeez. In Year 2, Subin hadthe closest guess of the number of cubes in the jar. In Year 3 HoongLee estimated the most accurately with the amount of units in a jar.Well done to all the students who were risk takers and took part inthis competition!The students in Years 4-6 had a maths trail to complete during theirlunch break. Many students participated and enjoyed the problemsolving. The trail took them around the School and worked togetherin a team of four.Different activities were also taking place throughout the day duringtheir maths lessons. The Year 4 s were learning about Estimation.Mrs Sparks had prepared many jars for the students to use differentmethods to estimate how many objects were in each jar. The masterof estimation from their class was Noah.It was a fun-filled mathematical day for everyone in Primary and welook forward to celebrating again next year.Ms HawkinsAnd SecondaryOur Secondary students also competed against other˚students fromaround the world. Over the competition˚we managed to answer animpressive 109,531 questions correctly. Congratulations should goto 32 students who managed to answer over 1000 questions each.Congratulations to the following students for their excellent results:˚NameTotal answersQi Yun (Kelvin) Yeoh 4701Yi De Fong 3438Chika Kalam 3289Boon Kiat Teo 3151Brandon Chong 2987Maayez Iman 2707Shihori Kawamura 2638Regina Ng 2347Yoon A Kim 2143NameAnswers in 1 minuteQi Yun (Kelvin) Yeoh 70Fahim Mohammad 68Kohei Maruyama 66Dylan McBurney 64Yi De Fong 61Nicholas Ng 60Thomas Hofmann 60Jastine Saguisa 59Maayez Iman 57˚Hopefully next year it will be bigger, better and maybe one of ourstudents can make the top 100 students from around the world fortheir age category.Mr ElsegoodBack to Toppg10