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Scott Flansburg - Source: Close Up -
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Scott Flansburg is not known as the human calculator for nothing.
It is mind blowing how fast he can add, subtract, multiply, and divide.
Crunching numbers has even got him into the Guiness Book of World Records.
He came up with 35 answers in 15 seconds solving equations faster than someone can tap them into a calculator.
He is in New Zealand promoting the NZ Maths Challenge, proving maths does not have to be boring.
Close Up puts him to the test.
The New Zealand Maths
Challenge
- The biggest online maths competition in NZ
- Aims to find top maths school and top maths classes and students at every year level
- Runs for one week using the award winning Mathletics learning platform
- Schools have free access to Mathletics for two weeks
- Week One, 17-23 August is practice week, Week Two, 24-31 August is the Maths Challenge
- Students win 10 challenge points per correct question from across the curriculum and one challenge point per correct question in Live Mathletics
- The aim is to have:
1000 schools registered, 100,000 students participating, 100 million correct answers, - In 2008:
527 schools registered, 40,262 students participated, 39,978,014 questions were correctly answered - Rotorua Intermediate was top school, gaining 3,848,195 points
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