Educational Math Blog
What is Algebra?
Algebra. The mere mention of the word can cause even the bravest child to break out in a cold sweat. Yet despite what students may
Mindfulness and math
It is Mental Health Week in the UK and as people around the world experience increased panic, anxiety and stress related to Covid-19, it is
Fraction activities to try at home
Teaching fractions can be hard. Really hard. Games are a great way to help make those numerators and denominators stick. Here are some fun fraction
How to teach subtraction to young children
Alongside addition (which we’ve written about separately), subtraction is one of the first operations children will learn in math. As with addition, there are more
What’s the best way to teach addition to young children?
How often have you found your child doing math in a different way to how you were taught at school? The math curriculum varies a
How to teach fractions to young children
“I’ll have the smaller half!” How many times have we said this contradicting statement? Of all the topics in elementary math, fractions is the one
It’s not magic, it’s math – how the Japanese multiplication method works
How does the Japanese multiplication method work? In the Japanese multiplication method, we are able to complete a multiplication problem by merely drawing a few
8 Fun Facts about Fractions
You may know your numerators from your denominators, your equivalent fractions from your improper ones, but here are some lesser known facts about these lovely
8 Effective Tips for Teaching Times Tables
It’s the age-old question parents have asked since the dawn of time(s tables): “Are there any ways of making learning times tables fun?” Mastering times
20 Cool Facts About Math
If you were to play a word association game with a school-aged child, you’d be pretty unlikely to get a response of ‘cool’ when you
How to Teach your Child the Math that will Save the Planet with Whizz Education’s Summer Challenge
Before climate change education makes its way on to the school curriculum in 2023, it is essential that parents equip their children with the maths
How to teach division to your child
How would you explain the mathematical expression 12 ÷ 3 = 4 to your child? The concept of division usually brings to mind images of
What is Virtual Tutoring and what are the benefits?
If recent events have taught us anything, it’s that we can’t take the usual things for granted. Even the most basic tenets of childhood –
Ask the Education Team (November 2020)
With Dr Junaid Mubeen, Director of Education at Whizz, mathematician turned educator and former Countdown winner. Q: My son Oli is in Year 6 and
Ask the Education Team (March 2021)
With Dr Junaid Mubeen, Director of Education at Whizz, mathematician turned educator and former Countdown winner. Q. What should I look for in a tutor?
What should I look for in a tutor?
Like so many parents of school children, you might be worried that your child has fallen behind in math because of all the disruptions from
What is dyscalculia?
Most people have heard of dyslexia which is a learning difference which primarily affects reading and writing skills. There is an equivalent learning difference which
Three Steps for Parents to Manage Math Anxiety
How can you manage math anxiety? “I’m just not good with numbers” Before the first day of school and throughout the school year, math class
8 Fun Facts about Decimals
Decimals are a way of representing numbers. They have a whole number part and a fractional (or decimal) part, which are separated by a decimal
Ask the Education Team (December 2020)
With Dr Junaid Mubeen, Director of Education at Whizz, mathematician turned educator and former Countdown winner. Q. The holidays are coming up, and I’m trying
Create new and exciting personalized certificates for every student!
From January 2021 our Math-Whizz Teacher Certificates will be migrating from Flash to make the experience better and easier for teachers to navigate on all
“Dodecahedrons” is very hard to spell
Who would have predicted, twelve months ago, that moms and dads up and down the country would be spending their evenings searching “How to do
Our guide to better mental health
Covid-19, and the resulting lockdowns, has made the last thirteen months difficult for everyone, especially our children. Not only have they had to contend with
To screen time or not to screen time?
As parents, many of you will gravitate towards less screen time for your children, having had many fractious moments trying to lure them away from
5 Fun Math Board Games That’ll Improve Your Children’s Math Skills
Let’s face it, while a lot of us know that math is fun, it can often be a bit of a struggle to convince children
What is Virtual Tutoring?
When you hear ‘Virtual Tutor’ do you think of a human tutor at the end of a crackly video link delivering teaching? Think again. Virtual
Child Struggling in Math
There’s nothing worse than watching your child struggle day in and day out with all of their math lessons. You’ve tried everything you can think
5 Tips for Getting Back on Track with Math After the Holidays
Just like that, the summer holidays are gone. The academic year is upon us and we’re back to figuring out how to get our children
10 ideas for adding math fun to Halloween!
No tricks, just treats this Halloween Sneaking math lessons into Halloween activities and parties might sound more like a trick than a treat this Halloween.
How to: Learn the properties of 2D and 3D Shapes
And here we arrive at the second of Whizz Education’s ‘how to’ blogs for parents, in which we help you to teach your children the
What is Place Value?
Here at Whizz Education, we know the importance of having parental figures involved in a child’s education. If you, as parents, can show that maths
How to: Teach your child Advanced Division (using chunking, short division and long division)
We’ve spoken before about how to teach your child the basics of division, here. In that article we spoke about the different ways of visualizing