Welcome to the Maths-Whizz Parents Quick Start Guide.
Read on for a crash course in how to get started with your parent and student Maths-Whizz accounts.
With your subscription purchase confirmation email you have activated a powerful maths tutor and a wealth of animated and exam-style lessons presented according to your child’s individual maths ability profile.
Maths-Whizz Tutoring has two key parts:
- a parent account,
- a student account.
You should have received confirmation of your parent account username and password. Use these details to login to your parent account at www.whizz.com. Click the parents icon in the login panel at top-right of the screen.
Your student’s account information can be accessed from your parent account. When you log in you will see your parent account details, a summary of your student’s account, and some information we have provided, helpful links, etc. Remember – you can check or edit your student’s login information on this page. If your child is having trouble logging in, we suggest you check his or her account information here before re-trying.
The first stage in your child’s journey with Maths-Whizz is the assessment. The Maths-Whizz assessment asks a series of test-style questions, in order, based on a starting position that matches your child’s expected ability at that age. If your child passes the questions, he or she will get steadily harder questions until they start to fail. If your child fails the first assessment questions, he or she will get steadily easier questions until they start to pass.
Encourage your student to complete the assessment in one or two sittings, and ensure he or she is relaxed and alert. The assessment sets the learning plan for Maths-Whizz, so it’s important! But don’t worry if the assessment doesn’t go perfectly, because the nature of Maths-Whizz means that we will continually assess the student in Tutor mode.
Once the assessment is complete why not login to your account page and check your child’s Maths-Whizz report card. Discuss the results with your child – this is a good opportunity to find out what subjects are causing your child problems – and agree a schedule for learning Maths with Maths-Whizz. We recommend 2-3 times per week, for 20-30 minutes. You’ll see the best progress with about 90 minutes per week, which tends to improve maths age scores by 2 years in 12 months of use.
When your child has established a learning routine we suggest you check in on the report in your parent account page, to see whether the weakest topics have been boosted, or overall performance improved. With time students come to think of Maths-Whizz as a part of their weekly routine. They become motivated to use our powerful Replay tool (accessed from the Student Console) to improve scores and times and get medals for doing well. And with good performance students earn credits to spend in the Whizz shop on pets, toys and furnishings.
We hope your child gets as much out of Maths-Whizz as we have put into making the experience educationally powerful and enjoyable.
If you have any further questions, visit our help site at www.whizz.com/help, or contact us at customerservice@whizzeducation.com.
