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Want to learn your number bonds* and get some exercise?

Try Maths-Twister! In this video, a teacher demonstrates a useful classroom game to help students practise their number facts and mental arithmetic by playing a variation on the classic game ‘Twister’.

Read on for our take on the ‘Maths-Twister’ recipe, or watch the video on the BBC’s new ‘Backpage’ website where - as they put it - ”parents of primary school kids share their top video tips about helping with homework.”

Many of the homework hints give physical ways of learning subjects, which can be handy if you’re desperate to enjoy the sunshine. We recommend our home students use Maths-Whizz for between 60 and 90 minutes a week, which gives lots of time for exploring maths in the real world - give it a try!

(* number pairs that total a given amount)

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The adventurous academic with a funny hat is back!

He’s exploring central American jungles, learning about ancient cultures and bringing his young sidekicks along for the ride.

…no, not him, The Professor!

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It’s not as if mathematicians needed proof that theirs was the purest science, but this cartoon merely serves to reinforce the fact, though sociologists and psychologists may find themselves disagreeing…

If you’re struggling with maths homework and it seems nobody can help, why not call the emergency services!

This is transcript and audio from a call four-year-old ‘Johnny’ made to 911 (the US equivalent of 999) when he was struggling with his maths. It’s no wonder he needed help from America’s finest; we wouldn’t expect our students to attempt such subtraction questions until Year 1 (roughly age 6) at least…

This video, and more, available on the Whizz Education YouTube Channel.

In our unending quest to find heroic men and women who can save the world and solve quadratic equations, we find two films to look out for this spring:

21. Kevin Spacey and a bunch of improbably attractive MIT maths students take Las Vegas by storm with their clever card-counting ways.

The Oxford Murders. Fissure-faced screen legend John Hurt plays another prof (this time at the eponymous university) who helps solve a murder conspiracy apparently linked by maths symbols.

Watch, and - maybe, just maybe - learn.

Get online with Maths-Whizz this weekend! We’ve got some Easter surprises for your online bedrooms.  Whilst we’re always trying to improve the quality of our online Maths tutoring, we do take the time to keep students entertained. This Easter is no exception.

For two weeks from this Friday (Good Friday), you’ll be able to decorate your personalied learning environment, or ‘bedroom’, with a clutch of easter-themed features. We’ll have five new floor colours, five new wallpapers and five new doors.

Here’s a peek at two eye-watering Easter themes:

Whether you’re already online with Maths-Whizz or you’re about to subscribe, you’ll only have a short while to make the most of your easter bedroom treats, so make sure you get online this long weekend, improve your maths age and do some online Whizz home improvements.

To find out how to subscribe to Maths-Whizz, click here. 

To keep you busy until Easter-time, here’s a seasonal treat!

The Maths-Whizz Christmas Adventure will be available online from 1st December.

Following on from our very successful Amazon Adventure over the Summer, Maths-Whizz brings you the Christmas Adventure - a seasonal selection of games, challenges and factsheets to keep kids entertained between Maths-Whizz lessons.

The Christmas Adventure will appear as a festively-decorated miniature house, on the desk in users’ bedrooms. Kids can click the house to get started.

 As with the Amazon Adventure, students must earn the right to have a bit of fun on the Christmas Adventure. For every thirty points a student scores using the Maths-Whizz tutor, he or she wins a star to spend in the Christmas Adventure.

One star and users can view the seasonal fact sheets. Find out about different religious and cultural celebrations this season.

Earn two stars and users can try one of the brand-new Christmas Adventure games including Crackanoid, a festive take on the classic arcade game ‘Arkanoid’…

Crackanoid

…Hit That Note, a musical challenge game…

Hit that Note

…All Paired Up (a memory game), Flying Puds (a maths shooter) and Sprout Invaders! There’s also a free Dress the Snowman game to play straight away. Kids can check their scores on all the games and fact-sheets by clicking the pudding in the Christmas Adventure menu. High scores uncover panels on a festive Whizz poster - the better you do, the more you uncover.

Dress the Snowman

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 If ever proof was needed that maths comes in handy when you least expect it, it is in this depressing-if-it-wasn’t-funny story from the Manchester Evening News.

 Camelot, the lottery and gaming firm, has had to withdraw its ‘Cool Cash’ scratchcard from sale, after it transpired the apparently simple challenge presented on the cards was beyond many of its customers.

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This year’s festival of trick-or-treating, fancy costumes and ghoulish fun is being celebrated with a handful of scary creatures to put in your Maths-Whizz bedroom.

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