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Maths-Whizz® works. Find out why.

 

Students who use Maths-Whizz
get better at maths.

It’s that simple.

Maths-Whizz Tutoring Plus is the world’s first online simulated personal tutor. It has already been shown to bring out children’s true potential in maths in thousands of cases.

Developed over several years with leading educationalists and designers, Maths-Whizz Tutoring Plus simulates the behaviour of a private tutor to provide the student with tuition based around their unique ability. Maths-Whizz guides students through a personal learning plan, assessing them continually.

Students who use Maths-Whizz Tutoring Plus for 45 to 60 minutes a week see their maths ages improve, on average, by 1.6 years in the first year of use.

To give your child the Maths-Whizz advantage, simply subscribe here. Your child will be given a username and password to access the Maths-Whizz tutor.

To see why Maths-Whizz is so effective, read on (click the links below).

• Bring maths concepts to life
• Behaves like a personal tutor
• Tutoring continually adapts to each student’s needs
• Why this website over other alternatives?
• Recommended Usage
• Proven Results

 

Bring maths concepts to life

The lessons themselves are delivered over the internet and come in the form of interactive animations. Over 1200 animations are directly matched to the national curriculum, which means their learning covers all the maths topics and is matched to what they will need to know in school.

Each animation covers a specific learning objective, and starts with a “teacher section” where the maths concept is introduced in a visual and engaging way. This is followed by interactive animated questions where students get to answer.

 

Importantly, if students don’t get the right answer, they almost always get more than just “wrong, try again”, as this doesn’t really do anything to help them grasp the concept or gain real understanding (yet this is what most content on the internet does).

Rather, something visual or textual happens to give the child a clue or that “aha!” moment. Then and only then they try again. Sometimes there may be several layers of help depending on complexity. In this way students are guided to gain understanding and confidence. See our sample maths exercises.

 

 

Behaves like a personal tutor

There’s more to Maths-Whizz than just academically powerful interactive lessons. To provide each student with one-to-one tutoring tailored to their ability, Maths-Whizz is powered by an intelligent simulated tutoring system, that has been designed to simulate the tutoring behaviour of a human tutor.

When a student first gets one to one tuition with a private tutor, the tutor will start by trying to find out the student’s overall ability, which maths topics they are confident at and which less so. In this way the tutor can then decide what to teach the student and which areas to cover first.

Similarly, when a student first logs into Maths-Whizz, he or she is presented with a series of questions carefully designed to get an initial assessment of the student’s ability in several of the maths topics. In this way Maths-Whizz gets an initial understanding of the child’s ability and their strengths and weaknesses.

This initial assessment usually only lasts approximately 30 minutes, and at the end of that you can see the student’s maths profile or “maths age” report.

 

[Click the image to see the report in action.]

 

More confident students may find their maths age is ahead of their actual age, whereas less confident students may find their maths age is lower than their actual age.

Furthermore, their ability may vary across the different topics, eg an 8 year old may find that she has a maths age of 8.5 in addition, but only 7.25 in fractions. Each child really has a unique maths profile. This is why it is so difficult for teachers in school to cater for every child’s individual needs – because they are all so different! As a result many students who don’t use Maths-Whizz find they are unchallenged or, worse, left behind and can lose confidence and fail to reach their potential as result.

 

 

Tutoring continually adapts to each student’s needs

Once a child has completed the initial assessment they start to receive the interactive maths lessons and practice tests based on their profile. These lessons are targeted exactly to their ability at that time. This means they are getting just the right tuition that they need at that stage of their development.

Students receive lessons in all the maths topics but extra attention in weaker topics. In this way, over time, their maths age not only improves, but they also catch up in their weaker topics, giving them a more “rounded” maths profile.

The tutor is very flexible, just like a human tutor. This makes it very different to a fixed course of study that you may find at other websites.

For example, a student logs into their Whizz account and starts his tutoring. On this given day the virtual Maths-Whizz tutor has decided to provide a fractions lesson (to that student’s current ability, of course). If the child does well with the interactive animated lesson, the tutor delivers some non-animated test questions to confirm their knowledge, in the understanding that classroom tests don't have the benefit of exciting characters and graphics! The child makes the cognitive connection between concepts they have understood though animation with the sort of test questions they may get in school. In this way Maths-Whizz prepares the child for success in school tests.

On the other hand, if a child really struggles with the fractions lesson, there is no point moving the child forward or onto another topic, until this is dealt with. So, just like a human tutor might, the principles behind the concept are immediately addressed with a different animation that has a different approach, which may be key to understanding the more complex concept. The problem is explained in a different or simpler way.

That is what a good human tutor does and that is what Maths-Whizz does.

Of course, the child may sometimes do only moderately well in the animated part of the lesson. In this case the virtual tutor will simply go onto another topic, and maybe next time the child logs in, or a week later, present the child with that same lesson. Sometimes all a child needs is a fresh chance, a little reinforcement, to understand the maths concept.

Sometimes students are presented with lessons they have done before, and this is entirely intentional. It is important that students progress only when they have fully understood the concept at hand.

You can see that the Maths-Whizz tutoring algorithm makes decisions on what to teach based on how a student is progressing, and in effect continually assesses the student’s progress, in just the way that a good private tutor works. This also means that a student can log in and progress even when there is no parent or supervizing adult. You don’t have to worry about what to teach your child next, the Maths-Whizz tutor does that for you.

 

 

Why this website over other alternatives?

Other websites may offer resources, animations or courses of study, but Maths-Whizz is the only service that takes a child on a full journey, tailored to their unique requirements, to reach their potential.

 

Does this mean that Maths-Whizz replaces human teachers?

Absolutely not.

At the end of the day the power of a human tutor - a good one, that is - is the ability to look directly at a student and give them the attention, care and confidence that can make a great difference to a child.

 

But Maths-Whizz can cater to a student in a way a human tutor can’t, using interactive animations that engage children with maths, and in a way that allows a child to progress in their own time at their own pace, whilst providing measurable results and reports to parents. Students never have to worry about Maths-Whizz losing patience with them! In truth, the personal electronic and human tutor approaches complement each other to give a child the best possible chance of success.

Maths-Whizz means people can get one-to-one tutoring in a more affordable and accessible way than they done have in the past – at home, over the Internet, in their own time.

 

 

Recommended Usage

Experience has shown that to get the best long term sustainable results, students should use Maths-Whizz alongside their school career, through a weekly routine of “little and often”.

Based on observed results with thousands of students who have used Maths-Whizz, recommended use of Maths-Whizz Tutoring Plus for students as follows:

1. Underachieving students, i.e. those whose “maths age” is behind their actual age (you will be able to see their maths age in the parent report after they have completed the initial assessment), or students who need more time to absorb maths concepts, are recommended to use Maths-Whizz Tutoring Plus for 90 minutes a week. Based on the most recent up to date data, 96% of students accelerate their maths age by more than 1 year in a year’s worth of usage, with an average improvement in maths age of more than 2 years.
2. The majority of students should spend 45 to 60 minutes per week where the average improvement in maths age expected is between 1.3 and 1.6 years in the space of a year.
3. Students who are gifted and talented and have maths ages well beyond their actual age can be challenged with just 30 minutes of Maths-Whizz usage per week.

 

Proven Results

Maths-Whizz has proven over the last 3 years that students who use Maths-Whizz for 90 minutes a week improve their maths age in the first year of use by, on average, 2 years.

Parents can log in to view progress reports showing exactly how their student's maths age is progressing. You get measurable results.

 

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