The Whizz

After the huge success of our first survey about Maths and Maths-Whizz in the student bedroom we decided to release a second survey that focuses only on your child’s attitude to Maths.

If your child hasn’t answered the Maths section in our previous survey yet please tell them to give their opinion! They can access the survey through the bedroom notice board and enter the the draw to win a FREE virtual hamster for their play area.

Of course this pet comes with a cage and wheel but it has to be fed regularly with food from the Whizz shop.

By the way, more than 70% of kids who answered our previous survey thought that Maths-Whizz pets are fun!

Math-Whizz has made an appearance in the US on local TV in Seattle, Washington state. King5’s Jane McCarthy looked at the successful integration of Math-Whizz into the Everett School District curriculum. Click here to watch the clip and read the accompanying story.

The segment, shown Friday 13th on King5’s morning show, focussed on the usefulness of the service for staving off ’summer learning loss’ (discussed on our blog here):

“Since using the program, Everett teachers have seen some students gain a year of math knowledge in just three months.

“And with summer approaching, they don’t want all that knowledge to slip away. Studies show that summer break isn’t always good for the brain because students can lose months of knowledge.”

Mary-Anne Stine, Everett School District’s Curriculum Director, pointed out that “[students] lose up to two or three months and struggling students even more,” over the summer break.

It seems a number of parents and teachers had the same concerns in mind when they visited our US site and subscribed to Math-Whizz following King5’s report - we’ve had a phenomenal response and hope it will continue!

If you are a teacher or a parent in the US interested in Math-Whizz online tutoring, email Ben Keogh at ben.keogh@whizzeducation.com.

Whizz Education is on Facebook!

The social networking website that threatened to take over the world in 2007 now features a Whizz Education company site where you can become a fan, view Whizz videos, check out Whizz company pics and chat away about Maths-Whizz Tutoring and Maths-Whizz Teachers’ Resource with other fans until the cows come home.

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Maths-Whizz Customer Panels give you the chance to shape the online tutor of the future.

We want your honest feedback on our online tutoring service. You’ll need to be a subscribing customer and prepared give us feedback on a regular basis. This might be through questionnaires, occasional phone calls and completing an intermittent diary. As a thank you we’ll give you a £15 WHSmith voucher, to spend as you see fit.

We want to know what works about Maths-Whizz, and what doesn’t work. If you have strong opinions either way, we want to hear them, and we’ll give you a voucher for your time. Here are some questions we want answers to, to get you started:

• What does your child like and dislike about Maths-Whizz?
• How do you motivate your child to use Maths-Whizz - what works?
• What sort of maths should your child be studying?
• What sort of maths does your child most enjoy studying?
• What do you think of the Maths-Whizz customer service?

Email toni.burkett@whizzeducation.com to get involved - we want to hear from you!

If you want to say something, say it here!