Maths Whizz

Maths-Whizz ® is an online private tutoring service for 5 to 13-year-olds. Following an initial online assessment/test the service delivers a personalised programme of lessons to your child through your home computer. As your child uses the service, the lesson programme dynamically adjusts depending on their progress. Maths-Whizz ® covers the entire National Numeracy Strategy and uses the teaching and creative animations found in our successful Maths-Whizz ® Teachers' Resource CD Roms which over 3,000 schools in the UK now incorporate in their teaching of this key subject.

Each child can access lessons from their virtual bedroom as often as they like. The lessons take the form of colourful interactive animations, which means children enjoy the experience whilst learning. To avoid burn out, we recommend parents should restrict lessons to no more than 45 minutes per day. This is important as best results are achieved using Maths-Whizz ® regularly over a sustained period of time, e.g. 20 - 45 minute sessions 2-3 times a week.

As Maths-Whizz ® is an online service it is available whenever you have access to the Internet. The beauty of Maths-Whizz ® is that you can build your child's studies into your routine. Access your child's personalised tutoring programme from home, friends' or relatives' and even from Internet cafes or hotels.

After successfully completing an animated exercise, the student is usually presented with five exam style questions. This is to ensure that the understanding the student has gained through the animated exercises is transferable to traditional paper-based questions. This way Maths-Whizz ® not only helps to develop understanding and confidence, but also improves exam results. Maths-Whizz ® currently meets key objectives covered in the National Numeracy Strategy for Key Stages 1 and 2 and Year 7.

Books/CDs can help a child to learn but the Maths-Whizz ® service teaches by identifying your child's ability level in each topic of the maths curriculum, delivering specific lessons that address your child's needs and dynamically adapting the lesson programme as your child progresses. In addition, most of our animations contain help functions to show how the correct answers can be found.

You can keep track of your child's progress at all times through the Report Card, accessed through the parent account. The report breaks the curriculum down into topics, and shows how well your child is performing in each topic, as well as showing their overall performance.

Some Private Tutors offer excellent teaching services to children. Maths-Whizz ® is not seeking to replace private tutors, but to offer a more convenient and affordable service with the common goal of developing your child's maths ability. With private tutoring costing between £20 and £40 per hour, we believe Maths-Whizz ® offers excellent value

Other tutoring companies typically offer prescriptive, centre-based learning that you need to fit your routine around. The teaching methods used are not right for all. Maths-Whizz ® not only offers you the flexibility of using the service whenever and wherever you want, but also allows your child to enjoy their lessons through the colourful interactive animations and the rewards they can earn.

•Personalised learning tailored to the needs and aptitude of each student. Continuous assessment ensures that each reaches his or her true potential.

•Ideal for low prior-attainment children and gifted and talented. Students who use Maths-Whizz Tutoring Plus for 90 minutes per week will on average increase their Maths Age by 2 years or more in 12 months.

•Online access from school or at home, in line with government targets for primary schools, requiring personalised learning, home-school links and parental engagement.

•Eligible for Harnessing Technology grants, Devolved Formula Capital and other similar funding sources.

•Engaging learning experiences, aligned to the UK National Curriculum for maths, covering every learning objective from Foundation to Year 8.

•Teachers see measurable progress with detailed school, class and individual student reports.

•Combat holiday 'learning loss' with seasonal reward activities for students.

  •Excellent resource for breakfast and after-school clubs, and other extended school formats.

  •Affordable - just a fraction of the cost of other forms of one-to-one tutoring.

  •'Replay' and 'Challenge' features encourage competition and rehearsal of learned maths skills.