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Contagion is Whizz’s new interactive game that will be released in the Whizz virtual shop on the 16^th of April. We are very busy developing plenty more games, so we hope you like it and see this as a sign of good things to come.

update: Contagion is now available to the public, click here.

Like any infectious disease, Contagion is highly transmittable. Let your infection spread and your score multiply by infecting as many tiles in as fewer in as fewer turns as possible. (more…)

Traditional intelligence isn’t everything when it comes to maths; a new study has found that ‘executive function’ - attention span and mental self-regulation - is fundamental to academic success, especially in maths.

The paper, featured in the March/April edition of the journal Child Development and reported in this week’s Scientific American, looked over a hundred and forty American kindergarten students. The authors looked at mental processes that come under the general heading of ‘executive function’ and that don’t feature in traditional descriptions of academic ability - ‘working memory’ and ‘inhibitory control’.

Working memory is where you keep information or instructions as you perform a task, whilst inhibitory control is all about the brain’s ability to ignore or suppress automatic responses to certain tasks. Learning a new approach to a problem involves keeping in mind that new method, whilst suppressing a tendency towards the old method. (more…)

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