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The Maths-Whizz Christmas Adventure will be available online from 1st December.

Following on from our very successful Amazon Adventure over the Summer, Maths-Whizz brings you the Christmas Adventure - a seasonal selection of games, challenges and factsheets to keep kids entertained between Maths-Whizz lessons.

The Christmas Adventure will appear as a festively-decorated miniature house, on the desk in users’ bedrooms. Kids can click the house to get started.

 As with the Amazon Adventure, students must earn the right to have a bit of fun on the Christmas Adventure. For every thirty points a student scores using the Maths-Whizz tutor, he or she wins a star to spend in the Christmas Adventure.

One star and users can view the seasonal fact sheets. Find out about different religious and cultural celebrations this season.

Earn two stars and users can try one of the brand-new Christmas Adventure games including Crackanoid, a festive take on the classic arcade game ‘Arkanoid’…

Crackanoid

…Hit That Note, a musical challenge game…

Hit that Note

…All Paired Up (a memory game), Flying Puds (a maths shooter) and Sprout Invaders! There’s also a free Dress the Snowman game to play straight away. Kids can check their scores on all the games and fact-sheets by clicking the pudding in the Christmas Adventure menu. High scores uncover panels on a festive Whizz poster - the better you do, the more you uncover.

Dress the Snowman

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 Just an update to say that our sample exercise viewer has now been updated to include new age 13 material.

 Get to grips with some Key Stage 3 maths in three topics:

• Percentages, Ratio and Proportion
• Sequences, Functions and Graphs
• Equations, Formulae and Identities

 If you know your areas of trapeziums, your percentage calculations and your linear equations, you’ll do just fine!

 If ever proof was needed that maths comes in handy when you least expect it, it is in this depressing-if-it-wasn’t-funny story from the Manchester Evening News.

 Camelot, the lottery and gaming firm, has had to withdraw its ‘Cool Cash’ scratchcard from sale, after it transpired the apparently simple challenge presented on the cards was beyond many of its customers.

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As promised, we’ve made Maths-Whizz tougher.

Yesterday we updated our online tutoring service with the brand new year 8 (age 13) content.

This means there are 154 new animated exercises and 154 exam-style exercises to challenge more advanced users and introduce older users to Maths-Whizz. That’s more than two thousand new maths questions and dozens of hours of quality Key Stage 3 maths tutoring.

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30,000 schools will shortly get to read about Maths-Whizz Online Tutoring in the Autumn 2007 edition of Royal Mail’s schools newsletter, Teacher’s Post.

Sherfield School’s Pat Preedy is quoted in the Teacher’s Post piece - she, and teachers from Mead School, The Hampshire School, and new subscribers Langtree School, are flying the flag.

This is great news for us. As we don’t formally advertise the new schools online service we’re trying to build grassroots interest with the help of teachers and parents. Teacher’s Post will help enormously, as will the recent Independent Schools’ Inspectorate report on Mead School which specifically mentioned our online tutoring service for schools (though, unfortunately, not by name).

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