‘Tick, Tick, Tick.’ The Stopwatch stared, Blair, Connor and I raced to
answer the first question. “It’s this, No, This!” We were wasting precious time
just on the first question! “Just put down this” I said. We scribbled down our
answer and passed it to the judge…..”CORRECT!” J he said, “WOOOO!”
We shouted. There were a few stares but we didn’t care.
We
got through the first few questions with ease but after those there were quite
a few bumps in the road.L “I don’t get it” “What’s the
answer” we had absolutely no Idea what we could have done. “Let’s just put down
this.” Connor suggested. We handed it over to the judge; Blair had put the
answer down on a line that had 3rd attempt next to it. “Sorry,
guys…” He started, “...It’s wrong.” We had a sad moment but we carried on with
positive attitude.
“There’s only 10 seconds on the clock!” I screamed. I was so nervous I
was shuffling and jumping in my seat, I nearly fell off! “NO, NO, NO!, don’t
put that down, it’s this!” I told them the answer and they rushed to scribble
it down. Just as we handed over the answer the buzzer went off “NOOO!” We
hollered with disappointed. We still asked the judge if we got the answer
correct, “Sorry guys, you should have handed it in earlier, you got it right!”
“WOOO!”
We had an enjoyable night and we (meaning the year 7 tem,) came 25th
out of 32 schools. You might think that it’s not that great, but that’s a
pretty big thing for us!
By Elizabeth
Room 5
Last term every student in Room Five had to publish one recount about an event they were involved in for thier portfolio, this class page and the school newsletter/magazine. This is written by Elizabeth from Room Five and is about her pariticpation in the 2012 WaiMaths Mathematics Competition.
Hi Elizabeth,
ReplyDeleteI thought that was such an interesting story about your maths competition. I really liked the detail and how you used lots of speech marks. Thank you for leaving me a comment.
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