St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

You may have noticed our jaw-dropping ‘in numbers‘ piece on the blog – well, unsurprisingly, there were too many numbers associated with Mathletes and Khan Academy to choose from so we gave them a post of their own!

As we explained in a previous post, 5th and 6th classes are taking part in Mathletes at the moment. At this stage, the competition is in full swing and the students are really enjoying it, but even more importantly, they’re putting in huge effort into improving their Maths! So how have we been getting on? See for yourself!

• 3 – We’re currently in 3rd place in the overall leaderboards and the average mastery points per student. We’re also the top school in Leinster in both leaderboards!

• 1,578,433 – the number of energy points earned by 5th and 6th class. Energy points show how hard the student is working by practising exercises and watching videos. Over a million energy points is an amazing achievement!
• 9,988 minutes – the number of minutes 5th and 6th class have spent on Khan Academy so far working on their maths. That’s over 166 hours!
• 1264 Mastery Points – you can earn Mastery Points by getting questions correct about a particular topic. We’ve noticed that our students have started to earn Mastery Points in topics both on and off the curriculum, which is really helping their numeracy skills!
• 169 – the number of Mastery Points combined, earned by the Grefaldeo brothers
• 93 – the most Mastery Points earned by a student – Sam Smith! (Followed closely by Leon with 90!)
• 790 – the most minutes by a student on Khan Academy. Alan we salute your dedication!
• 200 – the answer to last week’s weekly challenge – we got it right!

So, there you have it! We’re really proud of all the hard work put in by our students and we think the numbers speak for themselves. We’re delighted that Mathletes and Khan Academy have captured the imagination and the interest of our students and we can’t wait to see what they get up to next!