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World Math Day is a yearly math competition held online for 48 hours usually in the first week of March.
History
- On 13th March 2007 the fist World Math Day was held and in 48 hours 98 countries and 287,000 students participated. The success ensured World Math Day an annual event.
- In 2008, practice sessions began by February with one million students and 150 countries participating.
- In 2009, a brand new website for the World Math day was launched in the February practice session. Nearly 2 million students from 204 countries took part in the online games.
- A Guinness World Record in 2010 was set with 2.5 million students from 236 countries. Some new rules and games were also introduced.
- 2011 saw the World Math Day become part of the World Education Games.
- In 2012 the number of participating students and countries is expected to cross last year’s numbers.
