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The Maths-Whizz bedroom ’shop’, where our online users get the chance to spend their hard-earned credits, now features a fun and simple new arcade game - ‘Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road?‘

The game, inspired by the arcade classic, Frogger, asks you to help our hapless chicken across multi-lane motorways and croc-infested waters. This is definitely more of a challenge than your every-day chicken stroll and the levels get steadily harder as you progress. Dodge the cars and trucks, hop across the turtles’ and crocodiles’ backs and catch all the worms to finish each level.

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From today, Wednesday, until Saturday 12th January, Whizz Education will be present at Europe’s biggest Educational Technology Fair - BETT 2008.

 We are exhibiting at the R-E-M area - Stand F46 - armed with an interactive whiteboard, special offers and competitions. We’re close to the coffee stand, on the ground floor. Check the map here.

 BETT is free to visit - so come along and meet the Whizz team and see what’s happening in the world of education technology. We look forward to meeting you!

 Maths-Whizz Teachers’ resource has been well-represented in the results of the Primary Schools League Tables, released by the Department for Children, Schools and Families last December.

 14 of the 101 English schools “most improved” in their Key Stage 2 tests between 2004 and 2007 use Maths-Whizz Teachers’ Resource. Even better, 5 of the 30 schools in London which achieved a 100% score in Maths (i.e. all pupils at Level 4 or better), have bought Maths-Whizz for their pupils.

 This confirms our understanding that many of the most forward-thinking and successful primary schools use Maths-Whizz Teachers’ Resource. We find that using Maths-Whizz is a sign of good teaching and good teaching is often a by-product of using Maths-Whizz.

 We never designed our software to be a crutch for incompetent or lazy teachers, but rather an engaging resource for busy, active, stimulating schol environments that builds on good classroom practice and further encourages it. The league table results are further proof of this.