CantaMaths!

The Hardest Challenge Of My Life!

Wednesday 24th August 2016. This was it, it was the day; the 2016 CantaMaths Competition. My team and I had been training/practising for the competition for ages. Our brains were fried! Literally, Mr M(our maths teacher) asked me what 2x8= and I said 4! I mean seriously you could ask a 5 year old that question and they would probably get that right. But me, an 11 year old, couldn't get it right. Now to carry on...

Some of my friends and I made a humongous banner to support our Yaldhurst team.

We had finally arrived at Horncastle Arena and

joined the queue. Our Runner(Shukoor) had to go in first, so the rest of us( Laura, Eze and I) had to wait about 15 minutes to go take our seats. As soon as we sat down I started getting nervous and worried I might let my team down. But as soon as we got into the questions I was fine.

We had a time limit of 30 minutes, in which then we had to answer as many questions as we could. The questions were REALLY HARD! We answered 4 questions and scored 20 points.

I had an amazing time and I think everyone else did too. I have this quote that always makes me feel happy and have the need to complete tasks. Here it is: "Walking up a hill is for the joy of coming down." This means that all the hard work you put in is always worth it.