June 25th, 2008
After the huge success of our first survey about Maths and Maths-Whizz in the student bedroom we decided to release a second survey that focuses only on your child’s attitude to Maths.
If your child hasn’t answered the Maths section in our previous survey yet please tell them to give their opinion! They can access the survey through the bedroom notice board and enter the the draw to win a FREE virtual hamster for their play area.
Of course this pet comes with a cage and wheel but it has to be fed regularly with food from the Whizz shop.
By the way, more than 70% of kids who answered our previous survey thought that Maths-Whizz pets are fun!
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June 25th, 2008
We had some terrible news on Monday here at Whizz Education. Tom Rawlins, one of our former Flash developers, died unexpectedly last week.
Tom was a decent, warm, and enthusiastic man; a pleasure to work with. Whilst with Whizz Education he produced a number of our animated flash exercises and exam-style tests, and drew some of our best-known characters.
Here’s just a selection of the work Tom did for Whizz Education. Thousands of children have enjoyed his colourful, witty animations and we hope thousands more will.
Whizz Education expresses its sincere condolences to Tom’s family and friends.
If you wish to pass on your thoughts about Tom’s death, you can visit and join the Facebook group set up in his honour, titled ‘In memory of Tom Rawlins - our best friend, son and brother!’
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June 24th, 2008
Who would have thought legendary baseball player Jackie Robinson would inspire a talented young woman to pursue a career in maths?
Prominent mathematician Moon Duchin, profiled yesterday in the Scientific American in a ‘where-are-they-now’ feature, reveals what inspired her to study maths.
“I wanted to be a mathematician since I was 7,” she says. She was fascinated at the time by a book on Jackie Robinson breaking the color line in baseball, and so “I wanted to blaze a trail as a woman in math—once I decided I probably couldn’t be a baseball player,”
[Top Mathematician Moon Duchin, inspired to excel in maths by Jackie Robinson]
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June 23rd, 2008
Want to learn your number bonds* and get some exercise?
Try Maths-Twister! In this video, a teacher demonstrates a useful classroom game to help students practise their number facts and mental arithmetic by playing a variation on the classic game ‘Twister’.
Read on for our take on the ‘Maths-Twister’ recipe, or watch the video on the BBC’s new ‘Backpage’ website where - as they put it - ”parents of primary school kids share their top video tips about helping with homework.”
Many of the homework hints give physical ways of learning subjects, which can be handy if you’re desperate to enjoy the sunshine. We recommend our home students use Maths-Whizz for between 60 and 90 minutes a week, which gives lots of time for exploring maths in the real world - give it a try!
(* number pairs that total a given amount)
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