How much is that Robodog in the window?
…woof woof! Feed him, play with him, watch him transform, and watch him sleep – it’s RoboDog! RoboDog is the latest pet in the Maths-Whizz Bedroom. Get busy with our maths tutor and save up your hard-earned credits to add our shiny mechanical canine to your personal maths tutoring space. Don’t forget to stock up [...]
Read the whole postBecta gets with the programme – live reports benefit parents and teachers
Live student reports for parents and teachers have been key to the success of Maths-Whizz Tutoring. Since we launched Maths-Whizz Tutoring four years ago, we’ve been providing ‘live updates’ to parents and teachers on the progress of their students’ Maths-Ability. It’s something of a no-brainer: when Parents and Teachers are able to access the same [...]
Read the whole postIrrational Maths?
The excellent Steven Strogatz, writing a series of online-only articles about maths for the New York Times, has just posted his latest piece. It’s about that hairy beast of mathematics – division! Taking a broad and accessible view of the problems of fractional quantities and how much we struggle with them, Strogatz weaves in the [...]
Read the whole postAre you better than a Primary Maths Teacher?
I’ve already twittered about this, but just a reminder that the much-discussed Channel 4 Dispatches programme The Kids Don’t Count has a minisite with a nice maths quiz. Catch the twitterati talking about it with the #Dispatches hashtag, or try the test for yourself and see if you score 14/14. As revealed in the Dispatches [...]
Read the whole postHome Educator Maths-Whizz review
The highly readable and witty Home School In Italy is the web log of an expat mother’s attempts to home educate her child, referred to as ‘Son of Thor’ (which must make the author the goddess Sif). In the first of a series of online subscription site reviews the author takes a look at Maths-Whizz. [...]
Read the whole postAre primary teachers THIS bad at maths?
The Daily Telegraph takes a look at the apparently terrible maths skills of primary teachers. A test administered by researchers for Channel 4′s Dispatches programme found that: Only four out of 10 teachers could work out that 2.1 per cent of 400 is 8.4. Only a third knew that 1.4 divided by 0.1 is 14, [...]
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