Maths-Whizz for Parents
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Maths-Whizz is an online tutoring program that uses adaptive lessons and assessments to teach math to children based on their unique strengths and weaknesses. It simulates one-on-one tutoring by adapting lessons over time based on the child's performance. Parents can monitor progress through the parent dashboard and work with teachers to support their child's learning. Consistent weekly use of 45-60 minutes is designed to accelerate math learning.
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Maths-Whizz for Parents
- 1. www.whizz.com What is Maths-Whizz? • Virtual tutor for your child online • Adapts to your child’s unique needs • Works like the best tutors • Fun, interactive lessons full of animation • Builds confidence, enjoyment and ability
- 2. www.whizz.com Why Maths-Whizz? • Every child deserves to learn in a way that suits their unique needs and pace. Maths-Whizz helps teachers to provide this. • The Maths-Whizz Tutor simulates the behaviour of a human tutor, using an approach designed by our team of teachers, educationalists and curriculum experts.
- 3. www.whizz.com How does Maths-Whizz work? • First, an initial assessment finds your child’s strengths and weaknesses across key topics, and works out a Maths Age score for each topic. • The Maths-Whizz Tutor then delivers fun, interactive lessons that focus on strengthening your child’s weaker topics while developing stronger areas. This kind of approach is vital to progress in maths.
- 4. www.whizz.com Lessons tailored to your child’s specific needs Your personal tutor Clear visual explanations, interactive exercises Regular short tests to reinforce understanding Extra practice with Topic Bank and Replay
- 5. www.whizz.com Each child has a unique learning profile The initial assessment shows the strengths and weaknesses
- 6. www.whizz.com Progress of each child will be tracked by the teachers at the school Maths-Whizz delivers lessons to focus on weaknesses and maintain the strengths in order to build a rounded learning profile
- 7. www.whizz.com Consistent usage means accelerated learning Your child can dramatically accelerate their maths learning with just 45-60 minutes of Maths-Whizz each week
- 8. www.whizz.com How can I help my child? Schedule • Schedule in 45-60 minutes of Maths-Whizz across each week combined with time in school. Monitor • Keep track of progress • Intervene when they’re stuck – use Topic Bank and Replay • Ensure your child concentrates on the tests to progress (pass mark = 60%), but don’t help them within the test itself Discuss • Discuss the reports with your child’s teacher
- 9. www.whizz.com Sign up for Free Parent Emails to receive monthly updates on your child’s: Supporting your child Upgrade to your personal Parent Dashboard for access to live detailed reports on your child’s: Maths Age Strongest Topic Weakest Topic Recommendations for increased progress Progress across all topics Results within each lesson attempted Next 3 lessons You can send Messages, Stickers and Print Certificates to reward them
- 10. www.whizz.com • Log in to your child’s Maths-Whizz account • Go to Console • Click the orange Parents button. • Follow the instructions on the screen Setting up your Parent Dashboard Once you have activated your Parent Dashboard, you can access it from www.whizz.com by entering your email address as the username and the password you have set up.
- 11. www.whizz.com Tablet Access • Download the free Puffin Academy app from your app store • Open Puffin Academy and search for Maths-Whizz. • Click on Launch To use Maths-Whizz on an iPad/tablet: Puffin://www.whizz.com For more details, go to whizz.com/blog and search ‘iPad’
- 12. www.whizz.com The right lesson at the right time Click to edit Master title style Click to edit Master subtitle style 11/24/2016 12www.whizz.com The right lesson at the right time Questions or feedback? Call Whizz on 0203 328 6564 or email customer.success@whizz.com
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- Online Virtual Adaptive Tutor for Maths Maths-Whizz constantly assesses your child’s ability after every lesson. This is adaptive; depending on how well your child has understood the learning objective, the Tutor will move him/her on to the next level within that topic, or adapt to support your child’s learning so they can achieve this at a later date. Simulates human tutor behaviour After every question, Maths-Whizz will be checking your child’s performance and offering helps as well as interventions if your child is doing well or needing more assistance. Individualised, personalised learning As the level is personalised to your child’s ability, it is important that the answers are completed independently. Remember, the Tutor will adapt to support your child’s curriculum needs, so the Tutor needs to understand exactly what your child does and does not know. Interactive animated lessons Your child will remain engaged with animated exercises, including support from a teaching section at the beginning. It is important that they concentrate during this section as this will demonstrate the methods to achieve this learning objective. Builds confidence, enjoyment and ability Maths-Whizz is self motivating as your child will receive credits for their hard work and efforts. They can use these to purchase virtual pets, toys and plants from the Whizz shop. (Up to 15 for an exercise, and up to 30 for a test. They can also earn up to 10 credits for Replay or Topic Bank).
- Animated exercises begin with a short teaching section explaining the methods, followed by, typically, ten questions. The number of questions does differ on various exercises. Should your child get stuck on a question, they should have a go and try, if it’s incorrect, a visual or text prompt will appear to support them with their learning.
- Parents, Teachers and Students all log in from the Whizz homepage (www.whizz.com). Each have their own unique username and password. When a parent upgrades to a Parent Dashboard, their username will be their email address and they will set up their own personal password.
- FREE PARENT EMAILS: Sent the first Monday of every month. Updates on your child’s usage, progress and improvement. PARENT DASHBOARD UPGRADE: £29.99 per annum. Unlimited access to the personal Parent Dashboard to monitor your child’s live data (Usage, History and Progression). You can also send encouraging messages and virtual stickers, as well as printing off certificates. Support and motivation from home are key aspects to success with Maths-Whizz.
- FREE PARENT EMAILS: Sent the first Monday of every month. Updates on your child’s usage, progress and improvement. PARENT DASHBOARD UPGRADE: £29.99 per annum. Unlimited access to the personal Parent Dashboard to monitor your child’s live data (Usage, History and Progression). You can also send encouraging messages and virtual stickers, as well as printing off certificates. Support and motivation from home are key aspects to success with Maths-Whizz.
- Puffin Academy app is a free Flash mobile browser that provides access to whitelisted online educational resources Apple and other tablets do not support Flash player, therefore it must be streamed through Puffin To make it easier to access this in the future, recommend this page is saved as a bookmark – instructions of how to do this can be found in the BLOG at whizz.com; simply search ‘iPad’