As Iceland’s famously unpronounceable and temperamental volcano continues to rumble on, the travel ban imposed across northern Europe is showing signs of being lifted.
The flight ban is being lifted after the Iceland Volcano
Maths-Whizz Blog
Lessons from the Iceland Volcano – Part 2432
April 20th, 2010Improve your child’s math today
March 24th, 2010‘Improve your child’s math today!’ - that’s the tagline of a brand-new advert produced by Affixxius Productions. The 30-second TV ad, not yet released to the American viewing public, is nevertheless available to view on YouTube.
Check out the new ad for Math-Whizz
Check it out, complete with animated monkeys, hamsters, robots and birds, and check out our online maths (or math) tutor for kids if – for some unholy reason – you haven’t yet heard of the Wonders of Whizz.
UPDATE (08/04/2010): The video is now available on the Whizz Education Youtube Channel.
Maths-Whizz at the Birmingham Education Show 2010
March 18th, 2010
Maths-Whizz in Birmingham!
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 Education Show Awards (ERA Awards) – Supplier of the Year and Exporter of the Year. The show was another great opportunity to mix it amongst teachers and administrators who know and love Maths-Whizz, and those have yet to see the light (for shame!).
To correct the latter, Customer Service manager Natalie M, Product Manager Natalie S, and Sales Wizard Liam showed up bright-eyed and bushy-tailed to spread the word. The Nats had already done sterling work organising our presence at the show and managing our award entries.
Liam, Nat, and Nat!
Read on…!
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Home Educator Maths-Whizz review
February 16th, 2010The highly readable and witty Home School In Italy is the web log of an expat mother’s attempts to home educate her child, referred to as ‘Son of Thor’ (which must make the author the goddess Sif).
In the first of a series of online subscription site reviews the author takes a look at Maths-Whizz. Son of Thor has been using the service for three months and his mother has given us a detailed, careful and excellent review!