AN EXCITING ONLINE EVENT EXCLUSIVE TO ISP SCHOOLS
We are delighted to invite all ISP schools to participate in the second ISP Maths Challenge.
Challenge your students with interactive, adaptive curriculum questions and live multi-player maths games on the award-winning Mathletics platform, with some friendly competitive spirit!
Last year 9,293 ISP students from 46 ISP schools took part, making it our biggest ISP-wide programme to date.
Let’s make this year even bigger!
WARM-UP PERIOD
1st – 13th Nov
COMPETITION WEEK
14th – 20th Nov
CELEBRATION WEEK
21st – 27th Nov
COUNTDOWN TO COMPETITION WEEK!
THERE WILL BE AWARDS AND PRIZES ACROSS A RANGE OF CATEGORIES!
1st, 2nd and 3rd place – overall event winners
Top student in each school
Top 5 teams
Top 5 schools for engagement on social media
The primary kids loved it. They are already asking me if they can sign up for next year. Thank you so much to you and the team behind this competition for hours of fun.
I want to thank you for the excellent challenge, organisation, webinars, and above all, the opportunity to use Mathletics, we never used before, a great platform, a lot of possibilities to provide to our students an Amazing Learning.
(The best thing was) The fact that we got to compete with so many people around the world – it was a pretty thrilling experience – we all kept trying to one-up each other to see who would get more points in our class.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
This event is exclusive to ISP schools. Schools must register before the start of the warm-up period to be eligible for prizes.
- ISP students aged 5 – 18
- Free to participate
- Students can access the activities at home or in school
- Students can participate on any device with an internet connection
- There is no minimum or maximum number of students that can enter from a school
- Students can participate on any internet connected device (Mathletics works best on computers or tablets)
- Schools are encouraged to try and enter an equal number of male and female players
The ISP Maths Challenge will encourage and motivate students through a games-based learning approach, enabling differentiation for individual students and rewarding improvement. The competition is designed to support students to practice and improve their maths skills through creative activities that balance play and learning.
This process will be covered in the teacher webinars on Tuesday 19th October. Don’t worry if you can’t attend, recordings will be available on The Learning Hub for you to watch later.
You can also find instructional videos on the Mathletics help centre.
Competition week will run from 14th (- 20th November AEST (UTC +11). Only points collected during this time will count towards the event totals.
The winning students will be those with the most participation points, participation points can be scored in the Activities and Live Mathletics sections only.
Prizes will be awarded to:
- 1st, 2nd and 3nd place: The 3 students with the most participation points
- School champion: The student in each school with the most participation points
- Team prizes: the top 5 teams with the most participation points
- Top 5 Schools for engagement on social media
Students earn 1 point per correct answer, or 2 points if they have selected their bonus level.
There are a range of team and individual prizes up for grabs!
The winning students will be those with the most participation points. Participation points can be scored in the Activities and Live Mathletics sections only. For more information on how to score points, check out the competition rules. The ISP Maths Challenge Competition Leaderboard will be updated daily on the ISP Maths Challenge competition website.
1st, 2nd and 3rd place
The 3 students with the most participation points will receive a ClicBot Coding Robot Kit for Kids (Starter Kit). ClicBot is an intelligent coding robot, great for both education and entertaining. ClicBot’s extremely modular robotics creation platform allows you to build robots and share ideas with talent across the world.
School champion
The student in each school with the most participation points will receive a Play Impossible Gameball. The Play Impossible Gameball is an active game system that gets you moving, laughing, and showing off your skills with a smart ball that connects to your favorite iOS device, Apple TV or select Android devices. The free Gameball app comes loaded with single player and party games, bringing people of all ages together with fun and challenging movement-based games built on the power of play.
Team prizes
The top 5 teams with the most participation points AND the top 5 schools for engagement on social media will receive a SAM Labs STEAM Course Kit (Team size).
Teach students fundamental learning and workforce skills such as creativity, problem-solving and collaboration through the Team kit which comes with responsive, Bluetooth-enabled blocks that connect to the SAM Space app, an easy-to-use software compatible with Chrome, iOS, Windows 10 and Android.
Alongside the competition we also run a social media challenge, inviting students, teachers, and families to get creative with maths by dressing up, creating maths themed videos or making maths related crafts, and using the event hashtag #ISPMathsChallenge2021.
Please note: only entries shared from the official school social media account will be considered.
Yes, there will be four webinars to help support teachers and school staff to get the most out of the Mathletics platform and the competition.
All webinars will be recorded and available to watch later on The Learning Hub.
Tuesday 19th October: Teacher webinar #1 – ENGLISH VERSION
9:00 UK
10:00 Switzerland, Italy & Spain
11:00 Qatar
12:00 UAE
16:00 Malaysia
Tuesday 19th October: Teacher webinar #1 – SPANISH VERSION
9:00 Seattle
10:00 Costa Rica
11:00 Louisiana, Mexico, Ecuador, Peru & Colombia
12:00 Toronto & Florida
13:00 Chile
Wednesday 10th November: Teacher webinar #2 – ENGLISH VERSION
9:00 UK
10:00 Switzerland, Italy & Spain
12:00 Qatar
13:00 UAE
17:00 Malaysia
Wednesday 10th November: Teacher webinar #2 – SPANISH VERSION
9:00 Seattle
11:00 Costa Rica, Louisiana, Mexico
12:00 Ecuador, Peru, Colombia, Toronto & Florida
14:00 Chile
If you have registered for the competition you will receive an email invitation to join.
If you have a question about the ISP Maths Challenge or just want to discuss how you can get the most out of Mathletics, do not hesitate to get in touch. We look forward to hearing from you!
Mathletics: support@3plearning.com
International Schools Partnership: bparekh@ispschools.com
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REMEMBER TO USE AND HASHTAG #ISPMathsChallenge2021 TO SHARE PICTURES AND VIDEOS OF THE FUN YOUR CLASS IS HAVING!
