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Who wants to be a millionaire?

Every year, more and more money in being won by people of all ages playing competitive video games either online or at huge LANs (Local Area networks). World Cyber games plan to give out $500,000, the Cyberathlete Professional League will pay out $1,000,000 in prizes in 2005 and quakecon 2005, handed out $300,000 in cash prize money at a single event.

Many skills are needed to become a professional cyber athlete and one of those is lightning fast reflexes. Have you got what it takes?

Level 4

Achievement Objectives

  • Level 4
    • S4-4 Use simple fractions and percentages to describe probabilities

Key Ideas

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Key Competencies

  • Managing self
    • Be self-motivated
  • Thinking
    • Analysing
  • Using language, symbols and texts
    • Interpret word problems
    • Know, use and interpret specialised vocabulary

Resources

Author

Joanne Woodward

Last revised

Lindsay Smith (June 2008)

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