Parents struggle with their children’s homework – Becta
More than 80 per cent of parents struggle with their children’s homework, and more than half actually make homework worse for their children, according to research by our favourite Educational Tech organisation – Becta. Tim Muffett of BBC Breakfast interviewed students and teachers at north London’s Anson Primary School, which has a novel solution to [...]
Read the whole postMaths-Whizz at the Birmingham Education Show 2010
The God of Whizz needs a slap on the wrist. Whizz went to Birmingham’s NEC at the beginning of the month to show off Maths-Whizz to thousands of teachers and administrators who attended the Education Show 2010 and here, belatedly, is a brief round-up of the proceedings. Whizz was shortlisted in two categories for the [...]
Read the whole postAre you better than a Primary Maths Teacher?
I’ve already twittered about this, but just a reminder that the much-discussed Channel 4 Dispatches programme The Kids Don’t Count has a minisite with a nice maths quiz. Catch the twitterati talking about it with the #Dispatches hashtag, or try the test for yourself and see if you score 14/14. As revealed in the Dispatches [...]
Read the whole postAre primary teachers THIS bad at maths?
The Daily Telegraph takes a look at the apparently terrible maths skills of primary teachers. A test administered by researchers for Channel 4′s Dispatches programme found that: Only four out of 10 teachers could work out that 2.1 per cent of 400 is 8.4. Only a third knew that 1.4 divided by 0.1 is 14, [...]
Read the whole postMaths-Whizz at the Education Show 2010
Just a quick exhortation and encouragement to visit the city of Birmingham in 33 days, 18 hours, 20, 19, 18… minutes. Whizz Education will be exhibiting at stand S8E (floorplan) from the 4th-6th March. The fair Natalies will be on hand to guide visitors through the delights of Maths-Whizz Tutoring and Teachers’ Resource tools, fresh [...]
Read the whole postRaising standards in Maths with online tutoring – PIR Education
Quick plug to read up on ‘raising standard in maths with online tutoring‘ in this month’s edition of PIR Education magazine. Some great coverage of our efforts to boost maths standards in schools and home: Maths-Whizz, which first appeared at BETT in 2006, returns this year with the latest generation of its animated maths teaching [...]
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