More exciting news for Mathletics!
Google have released statistics for the top searched for terms in New Zealand for 2008.
The year’s fastest rising search was for the Olympics reflecting the interest the New Zealand public had in the performance of New Zealand athletes in Beijing but coming in at number 17 is the Mathletics website.
From the PC World Magazine -
“The year’s fastest rising search was for the Olympics, reflecting the strong performance of New Zealand athletes in Beijing. But, showing that New Zealanders are into brain as well as brawn, the large hadron collider and ‘mathletics’ also made the top 20.”
Fastest rising searches of 2008
1. olympics
2. facebook
3. youtube
4. lotto
5. wiki
6. seek
7. miniclip
8. asb
9. tvnz
10. large hadron collider
11. heath ledger
12. obama
13. gossip girl
14. jonas brothers
15. miley cyrus
16. euro 2008
17. mathletics
Mathletics NZ recently hosted the 2008 NZ Maths Week Challenge when over 20,000 Kiwi kids went online and solved Maths problems and competed against other students in online challenges. This generated an enormous amount of interest in the site as students discovered that Maths was enjoyable and fun!
