Just an update to say that our sample exercise viewer has now been updated to include new age 13 material.
Get to grips with some Key Stage 3 maths in three topics:
If you know your areas of trapeziums, your percentage calculations and your linear equations, you’ll do just fine!
As promised, we’ve made Maths-Whizz tougher.
Yesterday we updated our online tutoring service with the brand new year 8 (age 13) content.
This means there are 154 new animated exercises and 154 exam-style exercises to challenge more advanced users and introduce older users to Maths-Whizz. That’s more than two thousand new maths questions and dozens of hours of quality Key Stage 3 maths tutoring.
30,000 schools will shortly get to read about Maths-Whizz Online Tutoring in the Autumn 2007 edition of Royal Mail’s schools newsletter, Teacher’s Post.
Sherfield School’s Pat Preedy is quoted in the Teacher’s Post piece - she, and teachers from Mead School, The Hampshire School, and new subscribers Langtree School, are flying the flag.
This is great news for us. As we don’t formally advertise the new schools online service we’re trying to build grassroots interest with the help of teachers and parents. Teacher’s Post will help enormously, as will the recent Independent Schools’ Inspectorate report on Mead School which specifically mentioned our online tutoring service for schools (though, unfortunately, not by name).
This year’s festival of trick-or-treating, fancy costumes and ghoulish fun is being celebrated with a handful of scary creatures to put in your Maths-Whizz bedroom.
The first edition of our updated customer newsletter has been sent out to users, and is now online here.
Take a look - it’s a quick read - and let us know if there’s anything in particular you’d like to read about in our updates, such as educational tips, links to other maths resources, development news and the like.
Earlier this month, Whizz Education began a partnership with the Middle East’s largest learning solutions provider, Universal Knowledge Solutions (UKS), that will aim get our Maths-Whizz Online Tutoring service into hundreds of schools across the region.
As UKS say in their press release of 8th October, Maths-Whizz Online Tutoring is:
“…a solution that does not only answer the needs of the students in terms of ease of use, simplicity of presentation and clarity in explanation, but also the needs of parents and educators in being able to track students’ performance, identify gaps and measure improvement.”
We can’t put it any better than that!
The newest addition to the Whizz stable is our Maths-Whizz Teachers’ Resource Key Stage 3, out this month. MWTR KS3, to use its snappier name, is stuffed with over 150 brand-new year 8 animated exercises and exam-style worksheets. It features a more mature interface style, an updated dictionary with new animated definitions and a vastly-improved tools page (now known as the ‘Interactive Board’).
Contact Natalie Stakol on 020 7262 6952 or natalie.stakol@whizzeducation.com for more information.
Dotsy Boxy is Whizz’s second interactive game available for everyone to play for free. We have plenty more fun educational games to play when you subscribe to Maths-Whizz. We also have plans to make even more games available for non-subscribers in the near future.
Dotsy Boxy is a two player game and allows players of various maths ability to compete against each other on a level playing field.
You can play Dotsy Boxy by clicking here.
How to Play
Take it in turn to join adjacent dots horizontally or vertically to make lines. Complete a box by joining all edges of a square and answer a maths question to win the box. (more…)
Whizz Education has recently teamed up with CHI & Partners to promote Maths-Whizz at Home and Maths-Whizz Teachers’ Resource. We are delighted to be involved with such a successful marketing agency and look forward to what the future holds. You can read more about the new partnership here.
Computer racing games make you a bad driver - at least, according to the findings of some recent research, both in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, and for the driving school company, BSM.
In a sense, this finding is encouraging - apparently simple games are influencing complex real-life behaviour. If computer games are having this kind of effect then educationally-stimulating and socially-constructive games could be genuinely useful for children and adults alike. April’s ‘TechNews’ report from Becta (the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency) notes the development of “Ethics Game” in Thailand, the brainchild of a civil servant in the Thai Government’s Moral and Ethical Development Office who was concerned at the emphasis on violence in arcade games. “Ethics Game” has been designed to encourage learning of the five precepts of Buddhism: do not kill, steal, lie, commit adultery, or drink alcohol. (more…)