The Whizz

You can now buy Whizz clothes, bags, badges and even bears!

Cafepress, the hugely successful personalised clothing store, now has a dedicated Whizz shop.

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UKS (Universal Knowledge Solutions) is the new place to buy Maths-Whizz Online Tutor in the Middle East.

As mentioned here last October, Universal Knowledge Solutions, the Dubai-based education services company, struck a deal with Whizz Education to get Maths-Whizz into hundreds of schools in the region.

Now UKS have gone one further and are offering Middle East customers online Maths-Whizz subscriptions. Visit their site to find out more: http://www.uks.ae/whizz-me/.

You can read the UKS press release here. If you have already subscribed to Maths-Whizz and you are based in the region, you can continue to use Maths-Whizz at our main site - www.whizz.com - your service will not change.

Tell your student to explore the Whizz Shop as a reward for completing exercises in the tutor and earning credits for their success. (more…)

Revision is accessed from the Student Bedroom by clicking on the Whizz Logo and selecting Revision. Revision is only available to subscribers of Maths-Whizz.

Revision allows Students to return to animated Maths-Whizz exercises they have already completed.

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Maths age is a term we use to define maths ability, similar to the way that ‘Reading Age’ helps to define reading ability. We use information given in the National Numeracy Strategy to calculate maths age to the nearest quarter year (e.g. maths age 8.25 = equivalent maths ability to age eight and a quarter).

PC Requirements:

• Pentium II 400 MHz or AMD K6-2 or 100% equivalent processor
• Windows 98, 2000, ME or XP
• 64Mb RAM
• 16 bit colour (though 32 bit is ideal)
• Sound card and speakers (essential for Key Stage1, optional for Key Stage 2 and above)
• Recommended minimum screen resolution 1024 x 768 pixels

MAC Requirements:

• G3, G4 Mac 300MHz
• Mac OS X version 10.1 with 128Mb RAM or Mac OS 8.6 or 9 with 64Mb RAM
• Recommended browser: Mozilla Firefox

We recommend that you should have a broadband internet connection to use Maths-Whizz.

If you want more than one child in a household to use Maths-Whizz they will all need to be separately registered, assessed and paid for. Allowing more than one child to use a single Student Account totally disrupts the continual assessment process and is prohibited by our terms and conditions. However you only require one Parent Account, from which you will be able to access all of your children’s details.

The Assessment allows the Maths-Whizz Virtual Tutor to create a unique lesson plan which will cater to the needs of the individual student, a plan that will build confidence in their weaker topics and fortify their stronger ones.

The Assessment is a ‘test’ to assess your child’s ability across the key topics set out in the National Numeracy Strategy. We have presented the Assessment in an exam style so we can understand his/her basic maths ability topic by topic. The output gives you a guide to your child’s actual maths ability and determines the initial lesson plan for the Maths-Whizz service.

Please do not help or let others help your child with the Assessment. A false result will generate an unrealistic lesson plan, and disqualify you from our Money Back Guarantee.