Sleigh boredom with Maths-Whizz!
 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 [...]
Read the whole postHave a go (if you’re cleverer than a 13 year-old)
 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 [...]
Read the whole postLearn maths – win money!
 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 [...]
Read the whole postMaths-Whizz Graduates to Year 8!
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 [...]
Read the whole postMaths-Whizz Goes Postal and Mead School Gets Inspected
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 [...]
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