Maths-Whizz University – Maths Age
Whether you’re new to Maths-Whizz or an old-timer with our award-winning online tutoring, you’ll need to understand ‘maths age’: what it means, how it works, and why it’s so important. Just as every young person can be said to have a ‘reading age’ that describes their literacy level in terms of age-equivalent targets they might [...]
Read the whole postMaths-Whizz University – Teacher Account & Console
In our Friday instalments of Maths-Whizz University we’ll show you how to become a Maths-Whizz Tutoring Plus for Schools whizz. [All the videos we feature for teachers and users of our schools products are available to view both on the Whizz Education Youtube channel, or on the Whizz website.] Today we start at the beginning [...]
Read the whole postMaths-Whizz University – The Assessment
The assessment is one of the cornerstones of the Maths-Whizz Tutor – it’s how we work out a new student’s ‘maths age’ and set him or her on their personalised learning journey. It’s hard to understate how important the assessment is, but we’ve designed it to be a fun challenge, a self-test that won’t catch [...]
Read the whole postMaths-Whizz University – Introduction
If you’ve been using Maths-Whizz for the last couple of months you will have noticed instructional videos popping up to explain features of our online tutor to parents, teachers and students.
Over the next few days I’ll give you an introduction to the Maths-Whizz University by introducing key videos along with explanatory text and links to more tutorials. Call it Maths-Whizz 101.
Read the whole postLearn Maths – End the Recession
An OECD report has indicated the importance of maths for a healthy economy: “The level of mathematical knowledge among the general population was found to have a direct relation to Gross Domestic Product.”
Read the whole postTip for boosting maths skills – Talk!
Talk about numbers. As with so much in educational theory it seems common sense, but it is nevertheless still worth investigating; namely, whether parents who talk about maths and numbers raise children with more advanced maths skills. And this seems to be the case, according to research from the University of Chicago. The researchers found [...]
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