Jamie Harshman and eighth grader at Sebring Middle School logged into the competition Friday at his home for five hours. In his best one-minute stretch, he answered 32 questions on his way to about 4,500 correct answers half-way through the competition.The quota of 50 million correct answers from a million students around the world was reached after 12 1/2 hours. The event actually was 48 hours long. It ended 6 a.m. Thursday with more than 182 million correct answers recorded. When a student goes onto the World Math Day Web site they are brought into a small group of other students in the world to complete a series of math problems in a two-minute period. As the students race to finish the same problems, a bar graph shows the progress of each student in the competition. The competition is for kindergartners through high schoolars to compete with other students at their own grade level. World Math Day's Web site and event was created by 3P Learning. That is an Australian company that created an online math program. Last year no one in the United States was ranked in the top 100. This year two United State students finished in the top 100 . Trophies will go to the student who correctly answered the one-millionth problem, two-millionth problem, etc




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