2. What plugins do I require?
4. How does the Maths-Whizz tutor match and support the school curriculum?
5. How can parents and teachers monitor progress?
6. Why should you encourage students to use the revision section of Maths-Whizz?
7. How often should your students use Maths-Whizz?
10. Where are student credits stored?
11. What can your students buy with their credits?
12. How often should they feed their pets?
13. Can they play games?
15. School reports
16. Class reports
17. Student reports
The most common mistake is inserting student dates of birth in the wrong format.
It must be in the format dd/mm/yyyy.
You will need flash player 7 or above.
Maths-Whizz Tutoring Plus for Schools provides personalised learning for 4-13 year olds. Appropriate animated lessons will be delivered in all areas of the UK Curriculum. As the student progresses, the lesson plan will dynamically adjust to suit the needs of each individual.
Each lesson typically delivers 10 questions.
The Maths-Whizz tutor has a question bank of 1100 exercises that support years Foundation to Year 8.
Teachers are able to download reports through their account page.
By clicking 'Launch Report' you can track school, year, class and individual performance at a glance. By clicking on the different tabs you can compare topics, individual performances and use report data to plan teaching schedules and prepare for parents' evenings.
If parents also pay a modest additional subscription, they can monitor their child's progress through their parent account page. They will find a detailed text report, a usage report and a report card where progress is displayed graphically for every topic.
Students can advance very fast with the Maths-Whizz tutor, but no matter how much progress a student makes, periodically revisiting subjects is vital for long-term success. Encourage students to do a little revision now and then; students don't get any credits for passing revision exercises (after all, they should already know this material!) but they do get a confidence boost by reinforcing their learning and they can use Revision to prepare for tests and exams. To access revision, your student must open the Whizz menu (bottom-left corner of the bedroom page) and select 'Revision'.
Students learn best in sessions of around 20 to 30 minutes. We now recommend that students use the Maths-Whizz tutor for between 40 and 60 minutes a week. Dividing that time into blocks of 20 minutes will help your student's concentration and recall.
Students studying in Key Stage 1 should aim for 2 x 20 minutes a week, whilst students in Key Stages 2 and 3 should try to do 3 x 20 minutes each week.
There are several reasons why the Maths-Whizz tutor might have assessed a student at the wrong level - They either received too much help in the assessment, or they clicked 'Don't know' and now they are being delivered lessons that are too easy for their ability.
You can re-set an assessment result in such circumstances. As the tutoring engine is designed to account for variations in performance we recommend re-setting only when a student's assessment results are completely at odds with his or her ability.
To re-set an individual student's assessment, log in as a teacher, open the reporting tool and locate the student in question. Select 'Reset assessment and confirm.
The student will be prompted to complete the assessment at next login. Encourage the student to answer the questions that follow with care, and remind him or her that the assessment results have a direct impact on the nature of the lessons that follow.
When students are in their virtual bedroom, they will find a Whizz menu in the form of our logo (bottom-left corner of the bedroom page). If you click on this logo, students will be able to navigate around the programme and access exciting features.
All student credits are in the safe in the bedroom. Just roll over with the mouse to see how many have been earned.
Students can buy virtual pets that need feeding, plants that need watering and toys to play with.
Maths-Whizz pets need to be feed every time you access the bedroom. Simply click on the pet food box in the play room and drag the food to your pet.
Yes, if they have enough credits, students can go to the Games section by clicking on the Whizz menu. These can then be accessed by clicking on the games console in the bedroom.
The key statistic in most reports is Maths Age. A student's overall Maths Age is the arithmetic mean of all his or her Maths Ages in each topic. The Maths Age in each topic is an approximation of the National Strategy level achieved by the student in that topic. This approximation derives from the structure of Maths-Whizz under which the learning objectives in each U.K. National Curriculum year have been allocated into four quarters (e.g. Year 3 consists of 8.0, 8.25, 8.5 and 8.75). The number of learning objectives allocated by Maths-Whizz to each quarter varies from topic to topic and within each topic (in some cases there is only one, in other cases there may be 10 or more). We deem the student's Maths Age in a topic to be, for example, 8.25 until he or she has passed all of the animated exercises and exam tests allocated in Maths-Whizz to level 8.25 in that topic at which point the student's Maths Age in the topic becomes 8.5. Thus, a Year 3 student's overall Maths Age is likely to be an average of 8.0s, 7.75s, 8.25s etc. Correspondingly, the average Maths Age of a class is the average of all the Maths Ages of the students in that class, either by topic or overall.
The dropdown menu on the left of the page permits the generation of summary reports for the whole of a year group or a specified class.
The reports generated summarise the Average Maths Age, the Average Improvement in Maths Age, the Average Exercise Mark, the Average Test Result and the Average Usage for the year group or class selected and for the period chosen.
Reports show the Average Maths Age for each topic and in brackets the Improvement in Maths Age in that topic for the year group or class selected and for the period chosen.
This report shows the class Maths Age distribution.
The first row indicates the top students in Maths Age, Improvement and Usage.
The bottom row indicates the lowest students in Maths Age, Improvement and Usage.
This report shows all the students in a chosen class and indicates their Average Maths Age in years, their Improvement in Maths Age, their Average Exercise Mark, Average Test Results and Average Usage.
Here we show the class Usage distribution graphically.
This report shows for each student in the class his or her current Maths Age for each topic and, in brackets, the Improvement in Maths Age in that topic for the period chosen.
This report shows the student's Maths Age, Improvement in Maths Age, Usage and a measure of Performance.
Performance is displayed in the dial as a percentage being the number of progressions (animated exercise and related exam-style test passed) divided by the number of exercises attempted and completed (excluding any exercises undertaken during the assessment phase).
The history of all lessons completed by the student is shown here.
This report shows student achievements by topic, in effect his or her current topic Maths Ages.
The red vertical line shows the average Maths Age across all topics.
In this section, you will be able to skip a student pass on exercise or test.
You will also be able to reset a student assessment if you feel the assessment did not fairly capture the student's ability. Please remember that when a student undertakes the assessment, he or she should have no help from a teacher.