The Whizz

Get online with Maths-Whizz this weekend! We’ve got some Easter surprises for your online bedrooms.  Whilst we’re always trying to improve the quality of our online Maths tutoring, we do take the time to keep students entertained. This Easter is no exception.

For two weeks from this Friday (Good Friday), you’ll be able to decorate your personalied learning environment, or ‘bedroom’, with a clutch of easter-themed features. We’ll have five new floor colours, five new wallpapers and five new doors.

Here’s a peek at two eye-watering Easter themes:

Whether you’re already online with Maths-Whizz or you’re about to subscribe, you’ll only have a short while to make the most of your easter bedroom treats, so make sure you get online this long weekend, improve your maths age and do some online Whizz home improvements.

To find out how to subscribe to Maths-Whizz, click here. 

To keep you busy until Easter-time, here’s a seasonal treat!

Maths-Whizz Customer Panels give you the chance to shape the online tutor of the future.

We want your honest feedback on our online tutoring service. You’ll need to be a subscribing customer and prepared give us feedback on a regular basis. This might be through questionnaires, occasional phone calls and completing an intermittent diary. As a thank you we’ll give you a £15 WHSmith voucher, to spend as you see fit.

We want to know what works about Maths-Whizz, and what doesn’t work. If you have strong opinions either way, we want to hear them, and we’ll give you a voucher for your time. Here are some questions we want answers to, to get you started:

• What does your child like and dislike about Maths-Whizz?
• How do you motivate your child to use Maths-Whizz - what works?
• What sort of maths should your child be studying?
• What sort of maths does your child most enjoy studying?
• What do you think of the Maths-Whizz customer service?

Email monique.kleinschmidt@whizzeducation.com to get involved - we want to hear from you!

If you want to say something, say it here!

Maths age is a term we use to define maths ability, similar to the way that ‘Reading Age’ helps to define reading ability. We use information given in the National Numeracy Strategy to calculate maths age to the nearest quarter year (e.g. maths age 8.25 = equivalent maths ability to age eight and a quarter).

PC Requirements:

• Pentium II 400 MHz or AMD K6-2 or 100% equivalent processor
• Windows 98, 2000, ME or XP
• 64Mb RAM
• 16 bit colour (though 32 bit is ideal)
• Sound card and speakers (essential for Key Stage1, optional for Key Stage 2 and above)
• Recommended minimum screen resolution 1024 x 768 pixels

MAC Requirements:

• G3, G4 Mac 300MHz
• Mac OS X version 10.1 with 128Mb RAM or Mac OS 8.6 or 9 with 64Mb RAM
• Recommended browser: Mozilla Firefox

We recommend that you should have a broadband internet connection to use Maths-Whizz.

If you want more than one child in a household to use Maths-Whizz they will all need to be separately registered, assessed and paid for. Allowing more than one child to use a single Student Account totally disrupts the continual assessment process and is prohibited by our terms and conditions. However you only require one Parent Account, from which you will be able to access all of your children’s details.

The Assessment allows the Maths-Whizz Virtual Tutor to create a unique lesson plan which will cater to the needs of the individual student, a plan that will build confidence in their weaker topics and fortify their stronger ones.

The Assessment is a ‘test’ to assess your child’s ability across the key topics set out in the National Numeracy Strategy. We have presented the Assessment in an exam style so we can understand his/her basic maths ability topic by topic. The output gives you a guide to your child’s actual maths ability and determines the initial lesson plan for the Maths-Whizz service.

Please do not help or let others help your child with the Assessment. A false result will generate an unrealistic lesson plan, and disqualify you from our Money Back Guarantee.

Books/CDS can help a child to learn but the Maths-Whizz service teaches by identifying your child’s ability level in each topic of the maths curriculum, delivering specific lessons that address your child’s needs and dynamically adapting the lesson programme as your child progresses. In addition, most of our animations contain help functions to show how the correct answers can be found.
You can keep track of your child’s progress at all times through the Report Card, accessed through the parent account. The report breaks the curriculum down into topics, and shows how well your child is performing in each topic, as well as showing their overall performance.

Some Private Tutors offer excellent teaching services to children. Maths-Whizz is not seeking to replace private tutors, but to offer a more convenient and affordable service with the common goal of developing your child’s maths ability. With private tutoring costing between £20 and £40 per hour, we believe Maths-Whizz offers excellent value.

Other tutoring companies typically offer prescriptive, centre-based learning that you need to fit your routine around. The teaching methods used are not right for all. Maths-Whizz not only offers you the flexibility of using the service whenever and wherever you want, but also allows your child to enjoy their lessons through the colourful interactive animations and the rewards they can earn.

Yes! After successfully completing an animated exercise, the student is usually presented with five exam style questions. This is to ensure that the understanding the student has gained through the animated exercises is transferable to traditional paper-based questions. This way Maths-Whizz not only helps to develop understanding and confidence, but also improves exam results. Maths-Whizz currently meets key objectives covered in the National Numeracy Strategy for Key Stages 1 and 2 and Years 7 and 8.