Literacy and Numeracy Week ‘20

Essay Writing Contest

INSTRUCTIONS

Write an essay in response to ONE of the statements below. Discuss the extent to which
you agree with your chosen statement.

STATEMENTS (Choose ONE)

1. There is no losing — only winning and learning.

2. You must listen to understand, not to be understood.

3. Put in time today for tomorrow’s good health.

4. A nation’s culture resides in the hearts and the soul of its people.

5. Where there is number, there is beauty.

6. Mathematics is all around us.

7. A Man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is

what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.

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