Snow-bound Maths-Whizzers
—News Just In From the Whizz Sales Department— Actually, ‘news just in’ is that I overheard Whizz Product Manager Natalie say that we sold twice the usual number of maths tutoring subscriptions yesterday. Conversations with a couple of parents confirmed the fact: Snow is good for business! Those of our users not based in the [...]
Read the whole postBETT Show 2010- Whizz Education Shortlisted for two Awards!
Whizz Education is a finalist for TWO awards at the 2010 BETT Awards. The awards for which Whizz is a finalist are: ICT Exporter of the Year ICT Education Partnership This is fab news, but for those of you not fully au fait with the world of educational technology, some background might be in order. [...]
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England is in the top 10! Which top ten? Football, Table-Tennis, obesity? No, no, and thrice no – TIMSS! TIMSS is the catchily-titled ‘Trends in International Maths and Science Study’. The study is a quadrennial analysis of maths and science skills in primary and secondary-age children (two groups – 10 and 14yrs).
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Stop the press: News Report Shows Maths is Useful. Bit of a no-brainer, that one, but not everyone would appreciate just how useful maths and physical science skills are to one industry in particular – computer gaming. The BBC’s Rory Cellan-Jones reports from the north-east of England on the state of the UK’s computer gaming industry [...]
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