High-Achievers show their colours at The Mead School
Maths-Whizzers at the independent Mead School show off their certificates for high achievement with Maths-Whizz! The Mead School, in Tunbridge Wells, is a long-time Maths-Whizz Tutoring Plus user, and Independent Schools Association member. Isobel Feaver, Mead’s literacy co-ordinator, year 5 teacher and all-round whizz herself is a champion of online maths tutoring; The Mead School [...]
Read the whole postBETT 2011 – Whizz shortlisted for two awards!
We’re always pleasantly surprised by official recognition of our work and we were chuffed to bits to hear that we were short-listed in two categories at the 2011 BETT Awards.
Read the whole postThe Best School Video Ever?
…A bold claim from The Daily Telegraph. So have a look and (in a Geordie voice) you decide.
But as it’s all in a good cause – raising money for the charity Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY) – I suggest you watch, enjoy, and check out the charity’s good work.
Education News – Becta to close
For those of our UK Whizzers living under a rock, we have a new coalition government. The new government has pledged to reduce the UK’s deficit by £6bn in the short term, with further savings to follow. This amount is relatively trivial in relation to the size of the deficit, but seen by some as [...]
Read the whole postMaths – the best use for golf balls
Rather than serve only to be hooked, sliced, or shanked into the near distance, chased by a volley of insults, hundreds of red and blue golf balls have been put towards a magnificent three-dimensional Sierpinski Triangle (or tetrahedron, in this instance).
Read the whole postMaths and the Financial Crisis
Financial mathematics. If the God of Whizz was of an uncharitable turn of mind he might suggest that the world of finance has recently honoured mathematical accuracy more in the breach than in the observance. In this vein, the Financial Times’ Gillian Tett suggests that mathematicians must get out of their ivory towers to restore [...]
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