Maths – 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 postTake on the World with Maths-Whizz
We never stop at Maths-Whizz. We’ve just added a fabulous new feature – Maths Challenges – to our burgeoning range of tools proven to boost kids’ maths abilities. With Challenge, students can use their maths skills to take on all-comers from across the globe. We have thousands of Maths-Whizz students in North America, Europe, the [...]
Read the whole postJumpin’ Jack Maths
Here’s a simple idea, reported by The Bolton News, that marries maths and mucking about: A human-sized 100-grid in the playground. The Bolton news story notes that Blackshaw Primary School’s huge playground grid will challenge mind and body, and boost social skills. It’s a nice example of joined-up thinking at a school and it will [...]
Read the whole postMedals for Maths!
The Maths-Whizz Tutoring Student update, previewed here, is now live! Woohoo! What? You mean you don’t know what’s in the June 2009 Maths-Whizz Tutoring Student Update? Have you been hiding in a toilet roll? In truth, even some Whizzers don’t know the full glory of the improvements we’ve made, so for your edification I list [...]
Read the whole postReach the Top with Maths-Whizz
Some months ago we introduced the Maths-Whizz student leaderboards. Whizzers have since been able to compare themselves to buddies, schoolmates and every other Maths-Whizz student, based on the points they’ve accrued in Tutor and Replay modes. The Whizz leaderboard has proved so popular we’ve even fielded complaints from parents whose students were denied crucial extra [...]
Read the whole postHave Nintendo, Learn maths?
A Learning and Teaching Scotland report has shown regular use of Nintendo brain-training games improves test scores. This is, of course, great news for Nintendo, exciting news for primary school kids everywhere, and good news for us, too. Scottish students with their daily dose of brain-training
Read the whole post