This year’s Winter Adventure is live for Whizzers!
If you haven’t already, log into your Maths-Whizz student account and check it out. For the first time ever all Maths-Whizzers can try our Holiday Adventure. If you’re not a Maths-Whizz user there’s no reason not to give it a try.
Register for a free maths tutoring account and get access to five free lessons and a taste of the seasonal fun we have in store.
This year’s primary school league tables have produced a flurry of news reports which the Whizz blog has pretty much ignored. But this piece in the UK’s Independent caught the God of Whizz’s eye:
‘A little fun can go a long way when it comes to learning‘.
We can’t argue with the sentiment, as it is one of the key principles that has informed Maths-Whizz development – if you do something you enjoy, you’ll do it well, even maths tutoring. It’s just up to the educator to help make the subject engaging. The Independent took a closer look at one of the country’s most ‘value added’ primary schools – Blue Bell Hill, in Nottingham – that seems to have taken this maxim to heart:
“We take them ice-skating or to a pantomime – or do dance and drama with them,” said headteacher Jo Bradley. It is not the usual recipe for ensuring good performance by 11-year-olds in national curriculum tests. But at a time when a growing number of schools are recording figures showing that more than half their pupils fail to reach the required standard in maths and English – 885 this year compared with 798 in 2008 – it is surprisingly effective.
Whizz Education is a finalist for TWO awards at the 2010 BETT Awards.
The awards for which Whizz is a finalist are:
This is fab news, but for those of you not fully au fait with the world of educational technology, some background might be in order. The BETT awards accompany the annual British Educational Training and Technology show, held at London Olympia.
The BETT show is generally held to be Europe’s largest educational technology event, and is a huge draw for forward-thinking educators and industry from the rest of the world.
It’s therefore an honour to be shortlisted alongside companies like Encyclopedia Britannica and Promethean.
We’ll keep you posted on how we get on. Keep your fingers crossed!
UPDATE: Visit us at Stand R34 from the 13th to the 16th January 2009.
UPDATE (20/01/10): Get the report from the BETT Show 2010 and our showing at Wednesday’s awards ceremony, with pics!
Just in time for Hallowe’en, a spooky theme has been added to the Maths-Whizz bedroom!
Students logging into our online math tutor this weekend until Tuesday will get a seasonal treat with a rolling pumpkin head, cobwebbed corners, and rolls of thunder beyond the window.
Whizzers can get a fright with some of our witch-themed measures lessons, ghoulish multiplication questions, and goblin-infested graphing problems. It’s all in Maths-Whizz, with over 1200 more animated games to teach (nearly) every maths objective under the clouded moon this weekend.
Have a happy Hallowe’en, and may your treat for 2009 be all the tasty math skills you need!
In the meantime, check out this ghostly maths lesson from a truly inspired teacher:
(via Seattle PI Big Blog)
