http://community.brighton.ac.uk/pedagog/weblog/22196.html
To celebrate world maths day a bunch of highly creative australians have developed Mathletics - http://scs.scaffoldeducation.com.au/
This is a really superb project bringing social networking and maths together. Thousands of school kids from around the world are logging onto this site to compete head to head in endless rounds of 20 question maths tests - the power of competition to motivate children is all too evident - just a quick glance shows that the top 3 children have completed over 12000 tests. As I write this there are over 10,000 kids online now and almost 2,000,000,000 questions have been answered correctly (no I haven't got the decimal place wrong!). My own kids have got seriously into it - spending ages competing against kids from Brazil, Canada, Australia and Europe. What a fantastic idea and proof of something we found a few years back - add an element of competition and interest and engagement are signifiacntly increased!
