Olympic Maths – Be the best!
Can’t believe I missed this wonderfully silly Maths Olympics vid from 2008. A bit late for the performer’s eponymous comedy show, but worth showing nonetheless
Read the whole postPointlessly promotional maths – the equation for love and the Amatory Principle
It’s early in the year, perilously close to the “Worst Day of the Year”, and already we’ve been gifted a story in which a junior academic has earned publicity for himself with a pointlessly promotional maths paper.
Read the whole postBETT Show 2010 – Maths-Whizz roundup!
As in the last three years, the 2010 BETT Show played host to the Maths boffins of Whizz Education and this year the Awards committee saw fit to nominate us in two categories.The dust has settled, the leads collected and the awards show hangover a distant memory – so, how did we do?
Read the whole postWhat’s so great about Maths?
This isn’t a rhetorical question, but rather the title of the first programme in the new Radio 4 series ‘What’s So Great About…’, hosted by comedian and actor Lenny Henry, a self-confessed maths dunce. The Radio 4 programme, broadcast last weekend, features Lenny Henry talking to the likes of Carol Vorderman and Neurologist Brian Butterworth [...]
Read the whole postMaths-Whizz in the Daily Telegraph
With the snow still here, there, and everywhere (if no longer deep and thick and even) why not wander over to the excellent Telegraph education pages, and check out our maths whizz bannerette, featured on a couple of pages, such as this one: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/6943166/Ofsted-stigmatising-schools-say-MPs.html Even better, click the image, sign up to Whizz and give [...]
Read the whole postSnow-bound Maths-Whizzers
—News Just In From the Whizz Sales Department— Actually, ‘news just in’ is that I overheard Whizz Product Manager Natalie say that we sold twice the usual number of maths tutoring subscriptions yesterday. Conversations with a couple of parents confirmed the fact: Snow is good for business! Those of our users not based in the [...]
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