Whizz in the Sun
Maths-Whizz. Price: £27.50 per month; £269 per year. Available: Call 0800 066 9980. FINDING maths tuition in your stocking may sound as appealing as receiving a comedy cardigan. But kids don’t even realise they’re studying when they’re playing on the site. It is aimed at four to 12-year olds and shadows the National Curriculum. Studies [...]
Read the whole postWhizz: Natwest Startup Team of the Year 2006!
Another really proud day for Whizz Education! Building on the success of winning the Bett Awards for Maths Key Stage 1 and Keystage 2 earlier this year, Whizz Education has shown that it not only has a winning formula in Maths-Whizz, but a great workforce as highlighted by winning the Natwest Startup Team of the [...]
Read the whole postHamsters Going Cheap…
[kml_flashembed movie="/blog/wp-images/hamster2_thumb.swf" height="100" width="100" /] A lot of parents have been telling us that the Hamsters in the shop are too expensive, so we’ve made it easier to get the electronic rodents. Your child might finally be able to afford one, but just because the hamsters are cheaper, it doesn’t make them any less special, [...]
Read the whole postMaths-Whizz Autumn Newsletter 2006
Welcome to Maths-Whizz News, the free quarterly newsletter for subscribers to the exclusive Maths-Whizz service. Maths-Whizz News will keep you up to date with new developments in both the Maths-Whizz service and the accompanying www.whizz.com website. Back to School! For many parents September brings some mixed blessings. The summer holidays are over and your children [...]
Read the whole postNew National Strategy, Old Maths
The 2006 update to the curriculum structure for the UK’s Primary National Strategy for Maths is finally out, about a month late. You can see the updates here. We’ve been working towards this for a while and Hilary & Steve took a sneak peek at the draft curriculum back in May. It seems that not [...]
Read the whole postTES Scotland Plus
Maths with flying ants A new online service offers home tuition in mathematics for primary schoolchildren, writes Sue Leonard. An interactive maths program that is being used in hundreds of schools across the UK will be available in children’s’ homes from this month. Maths-Whizz is a primary teacher’s resource on CDRom. Now Maths-Whizz. com offers [...]
Read the whole post