Mental maths wins award for Rahara pupils

Maths is always on the menu at Rahara NS and this week three third class students in the school, Sean Kenny, Graham Geraghty and Michael Connaughton, won a prize for their outstanding performance at World Maths Day 2008. World Maths Day is a global celebration of numbers. Students from across the world united on 5th March 2008 in their quest to set a world record in answering as many questions as possible. This year more than one million students from 20,000 schools from 150 different countries participated and managed to answer a whopping 182,455,169 correct answers in 24 hours.