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:
A week ago, the Scientific American reported on findings that demonstrated a fact at first counter-intuitive, but obvious with hindsight, and something Maths-Whizzers would do well to remember:
It is often better to fail something in order to learn it better.
With Challenge, students can use their maths skills to take on all-comers from across the globe. We have thousands of Maths-Whizz students in North America, Europe, the Middle East and Australasia.
Until yesterday, Maths-Whizzers had to share maths skills and a lesson history with one of their limited buddy list. Now the Maths-Whizz system automatically locates students with similar skills profiles to be challenged on completed lessons.
If you’re a parent of a Maths-Whizzer, our latest feature will be perfect for helping you motivate your student, encourage some healthy competition, and boost their confidence in maths. Parents or teachers won’t need to worry about confidentiality, Whizzers cannot post comments to other challengers.
One thing to remember - with new Challenge we now only award credits for improving lesson scores or times in Replay. If you’re already scoring 100% with a fast time, it’s time to try another one of our 1200 animated maths lessons.
Yet more proof (if proof were needed!) that maths is the key to everything, from the Guardian newspaper today.
The Guardian’s Aditya Chakrabortty reports on the recent findings of New York University professor Bruce Bueno de Mesquita.
de Mesquita’s new book Predictioneer looks at the likelihood of Iran acquiring nuclear weapons, and of the Copenhagen climate summit succeeding, all with the help of game theory.
