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ICT for education prize 2020
Special edtech award 2022
Competition Winner(s) Announced 5th October, 2022
Teachers of the world - have you dreamed about bringing a world-class, cutting-edge, digital solution to your school? Here's your opportunity to win free lifetime access* in an easy and fun way! All you need to do is create your own math problem with your students!
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ICT for education prize 2020
Special edtech award 2022
Unlimited access to the customer support team in your country/region. Access to Eduten’s professional development and training tools (1 teacher and up to 35 students at a time).
Entering the competition is easy. Together with your class, we want you to create and solve a math problem. You will write it up as a word problem and submit it via the link below. One entry per class is all you need.
We will add the best problems we receive onto the Eduten platform so millions of other students across the world can solve them!
A word problem in math is a math question written as one sentence or more that requires children to apply their maths knowledge to a 'real-life' scenario. See these examples.
Jakob wants to invite 20 friends to his birthday, which will cost his parents $250. If he decides to invite 15 friends instead, how much money will it cost his parents? Assume the relationship is directly proportional.
Solution: $187.50
Rita put $100.00 in a bank account that gains 20% interest annually. How much interest will be accumulated in 1 year? If she makes no withdrawals, how much money will be in the account after 1 year?
Solution: $120
At lunchtime, an ice cream parlor served 6 ¼ scoops of chocolate ice cream, 5 ¾ scoops of vanilla and 2 ¾ scoops of strawberry. How many scoops of ice cream did the parlor serve in total?
Solution: 14 ¾ scoops of ice cream
By entering this competition, you give permission for Eduten to use: School, class and class teacher name/title for marketing purposes. Please confirm this permission with your school leadership if necessary.
By entering this competition, you give unlimited permission for Eduten to use your entry as the inspiration for any future exercises on the platform.
Participants need to enter the competition by filling out the details on the form provided. The judges’ decision is final, no correspondence will be entered into.
*Lifetime access: the winning teacher will receive teacher access and student access for up to 35 students at a time, for as long as they teach a class at a school. This equates to 12 years in total. The winner can switch their lifetime access to another school if they change schools in the future. The term lifetime access also refers to and is limited by the lifetime of Eduten Ltd. The lifetime access may not be transferred to others, exchanged for cash, or used outside of the school context. To receive the lifetime access, the winner must complete the Eduten video training course, and accept Eduten’s terms of service and privacy policy.
Results and winner(s) will be published by (October 5th, 2022).