Leeds primary school win national maths challenge

Key Stage Two pupils from Whingate Primary School in Armley have proved their number-crunching abilities by winning a national maths competition.

The numerical whizzes came first out of 452 British schools competing in the Mathletics Numeracy Challenge.

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The team of 234 youngsters correctly answered over 492,000 questions in just two weeks, ending up with a points haul of 10,959.

Even more impressively, the mathletes collected most of their points outside of lesson time, logging on in lunch breaks, at home and during breakfast and after-school clubs.

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