14/05/2014 Newsround
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Nel here with your take on banning calculators. | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
And a sad space robot goodbye coming up. | :00:09. | :00:10. | |
The mega mud bath you do not want to miss. | :00:11. | :00:14. | |
First then to the subject that hundreds of you have been in touch | :00:15. | :00:26. | |
about today - whether it's right to ban calculators from maths exams. | :00:27. | :00:29. | |
Thousands of Year 6 kids across England have become the first to | :00:30. | :00:32. | |
take the new Maths SAT tests today, where no calculators are allowed. | :00:33. | :00:35. | |
Up until this year, ten and 11-year-olds in England were allowed | :00:36. | :00:49. | |
to use a calculator on some of these exams. From today, in the majority | :00:50. | :00:56. | |
of tests, they are banned. The Government says it is because pupils | :00:57. | :01:03. | |
need to become confident with basic sums before they pick up a | :01:04. | :01:05. | |
calculator. That will help young people compete for the best jobs in | :01:06. | :01:10. | |
the future. Some maths experts from three top universities argue there | :01:11. | :01:15. | |
is lots of evidence from places like America that using calculators, | :01:16. | :01:18. | |
alongside more traditional methods, does not affect maths skills and can | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
help. Kids at this school were among the first to take the new exams this | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
morning. I have come to see what they've wrought. I felt a bit | :01:27. | :01:35. | |
rushed. I was on the same question for a really long time. The good | :01:36. | :01:40. | |
thing about not having a calculator is you can use the skills we have | :01:41. | :01:45. | |
learned in school to work out the answer. If you are using a | :01:46. | :01:49. | |
calculator, or you are doing is typing in numbers. A calculator in | :01:50. | :01:57. | |
some tests is OK but I do not think I really need a calculator in that | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
test. That is the view of some of the kids who have taken the test. It | :02:03. | :02:10. | |
will take a while to determine whether this is the right way | :02:11. | :02:11. | |
forward. Lots and lots of you still | :02:12. | :02:17. | |
getting in touch about this. I sat my Maths SATs today and think | :02:18. | :02:20. | |
it's not fair because I've done all I feel confident about doing my SATs | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
today without a calculator. And if you're preparing | :02:26. | :02:31. | |
for exams now and want some top tips on how to improve your memory, | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
head to the Newsround website, And that's also where you can | :02:37. | :02:39. | |
see more on this little guy. He's a talking space robot called | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
Kirobo, who has been living on the International Space Station | :02:45. | :02:47. | |
for the last six months. Sadly, | :02:48. | :02:50. | |
he had to say an emotional goodbye when his Japanese astronaut friend, | :02:51. | :02:52. | |
Koichi Wakata, returned to earth. Cameras on board caught the farewell | :02:53. | :02:54. | |
moment between the two friends. And, in a few hours, | :02:55. | :03:05. | |
the first European trophy Benfica take on Sevilla in the | :03:06. | :03:08. | |
Europa League final, having lost at That was the latest | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
in a long line of defeats that, legend has it, could all be | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
down to a mysterious curse. Benfica, one of the most prestigious | :03:19. | :03:21. | |
clubs in the world, with a record 33 Benfica, one of the most prestigious | :03:22. | :03:36. | |
clubs in the world with a record 33 league titles to its name. Here at | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
their home, fans are used to celebrating. When it comes to | :03:41. | :03:47. | |
European football, it is a completely different story. So, how | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
can the most successful clubs in Portuguese history have such a bad | :03:53. | :03:58. | |
record in European competitions? Some believe that Benfica 's bad run | :03:59. | :04:04. | |
is all down to a 100-year-old curse they -- made by a former manager. | :04:05. | :04:12. | |
There was a curse that when Benfica won the second European cup they did | :04:13. | :04:14. | |
not renew the contract with their manager, who was furious with them. | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
Legend has it he put a curse on Benfica. He said in the next 100 | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
years Benfica will never win a European trophy. It has been more | :04:25. | :04:30. | |
than 50 years since they have won a European trophy. They have been in | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
seven European cup finals and lost every single one. Benfica go into | :04:35. | :04:44. | |
this final as favourites. They are fresh and their minds are lighter | :04:45. | :04:50. | |
than last year. I think, this year, they have more chances to proceed. | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
They seem to be in good shape on the pitch. Can they win it this time | :04:56. | :05:01. | |
will the legendary curse stop the Eagles soaring to victory once | :05:02. | :05:02. | |
again? Finally, to the ultimate game | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
of stuck in the mud. Thousands of people | :05:07. | :05:08. | |
in France turned up to take on this obstacle course with a difference | :05:09. | :05:11. | |
in the annual mud day challenge. The 13 km race in the capital, | :05:12. | :05:14. | |
Paris, gets runners crawling, swinging and climbing through pools | :05:15. | :05:17. | |
of mud and other challenges. But don't try this at home, | :05:18. | :05:20. | |
just imagine the washing after! I'm back with more Newsround | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
at 6:50am. | :05:25. | :05:26. |
