 | | | | | | Education The U.S. CoML recognizes the importance of educating students, teachers, and the general public about our research projects. Recently, we have begun the process of establishing a significant education component based upon our diverse research projects and discoveries. In the meantime, to make it easier to find educational information from ALL our projects, please visit the CoML Portal.
March 3, 2010 is World Maths Day. Students around the world play against each other in live games of mental arithmetic. Each game lasts for 60 seconds and students can play up to 500 games, earning points for each correct answer.
March 13, 2007 saw the launch of the inaugural World Maths Day competition. In 48 hours over 287,000 students from 98 countries took part to smash the world record and answer 38,904,275 questions correctly. From this success, the World Maths Day was created.
Don't worry if you've missed the 2010 event. In March 2011, World Maths Day will be even bigger, becoming part of The World Education Games. This global education event, will allow students and schools from around the world to unite to set a new world record for the numbers of questions correctly answered in maths, spelling, and science.
The World Education Games takes place on the first 3 Wednesdays in March:
World Maths Day - 2 March 2011
World Science Day – 9 March 2011
World Spelling Day – 16 March 2011
To learn more, please visit the official World Maths Day web site.
The Ocean Today Kiosk website provides access to current and archived videos of the Ocean Today kiosk at the Sant Ocean Hall in the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History. The Ocean Today Kiosk is a dynamic, visitor-friendly, multi-media experience that illustrates both the ocean's influence on humans and their influence upon the ocean. The website offers transcripts of the videos along with links for more information. You can subscribe for updates on ocean news or visit the 'Locations' section to find out where other Ocean Today Kiosks are located, and if one is near you. To learn more, please visit the Ocean Today Kiosk online.
The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) offers a Create-A-Graph section in their Kids' Zone on the web site. This tool helps users make different charts and graphs, with options for customizing each type. A tutorial explains which kind of graph is best for a particular situation. Kids can learn how scientists use graphs to communicate information visually.
The NCES Kids' Zone also provides information to help kids learn about schools; decide which college to attend; as well as engage in games, quizzes and skill building about math, probability, graphing, and mathematicians. Roll the online dice and learn about probability and statistics. There are even words and quotes of the day on the web site. To learn more, please visit the NCES Kids' Zone web site.
To view previous Education Links of the Month, please visit:
If you are affiliated with any of our research projects and would like to send us links to educational materials, please contact Melissa Brodeur at mbrodeur@OceanLeadership.org.
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