Times are a-changin’
Keep your eyes peeled for price reductions As you may be aware we’ve been making lots of updates to our technology recently, by streamlining our back-end and making our systems more efficient we have made some cost cuts…not, thankfully, the sort made by Lehman Brothers Banking! You’ll be happy to hear that we are going [...]
Read the whole postThe Maths Instinct?
Natalie Angier in the New York Times today reports (login required) on the key roles intuition and estimation have in mathematical ability. Our thousands of years’ progress in the sciences might well owe a large debt to a skill we share with the humble rat. [Quick estimation test - How many cats?]
Read the whole postMaths-Whizz Challenge Testimonial: Roberta
Maths-Whizz Challenge… well! Since bringing home the new Whizz CD, Kimberley, Richard and my husband Alan now have a 3 way challenge going on the p.c. in Richard’s bedroom – in fact it really got quite competitive last night! Their activities even got my older boys very curious so they also want to get involved in ‘helping’ Kimberley and Richard with their [...]
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Anything that gets my own son who, incidentally, is one of our class pupils, to play Maths rather than Star Wars must be good.
Read the whole postTestimonial: Kiya (10yrs)
Maths-Whizz makes me confident and makes me see a different way of learning how to do hard maths.
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If ‘a spoonful of sugar’ helps the medicine go down, then we’re throwing a box of chocolates at students with our newest product. We’ve long found that by introducing an element of fun and healthy competition, kids can not only progress quicker in maths, but they can also really enjoy the subject – so we [...]
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