The Whizz

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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The long summer holidays will soon be upon us. But those endless warm afternoons of childhood may conceal a hidden menace - stupidity (aka ’summer learning loss’).

The Education Guardian last week reported on plans from think-tank The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) to shorten the long summer holidays. IPPR policy wonks have found that:

…children from the poorest backgrounds suffered most with ’summer learning loss’ because they were the least likely to practise reading and writing during the six-week break.

(Is this cat suffering from ’summer learning loss’? Find out after the jump)

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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.

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).

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.

Books/CDS can help a child to learn but the Maths-Whizz service teaches by identifying your child’s ability level in each topic of the maths curriculum, delivering specific lessons that address your child’s needs and dynamically adapting the lesson programme as your child progresses. In addition, most of our animations contain help functions to show how the correct answers can be found.
You can keep track of your child’s progress at all times through the Report Card, accessed through the parent account. The report breaks the curriculum down into topics, and shows how well your child is performing in each topic, as well as showing their overall performance.

Some Private Tutors offer excellent teaching services to children. Maths-Whizz is not seeking to replace private tutors, but to offer a more convenient and affordable service with the common goal of developing your child’s maths ability. With private tutoring costing between £20 and £40 per hour, we believe Maths-Whizz offers excellent value.

Other tutoring companies typically offer prescriptive, centre-based learning that you need to fit your routine around. The teaching methods used are not right for all. Maths-Whizz not only offers you the flexibility of using the service whenever and wherever you want, but also allows your child to enjoy their lessons through the colourful interactive animations and the rewards they can earn.