Math-Whizz works

We've known this for some time, and our many glowing comments from parents, teachers, and students testifies to our success teaching math.

 

Nevertheless, it helps to have more formal confirmation of the quality of our tutoring and to this end we recently analysed usage and performance data from 2,612 live* Math-Whizz students. The data have produced the following recommendations and findings:

  • Most students who use Math-Whizz Tutoring Plus for 90 minutes a week improve their maths ages by more than 2 years in 12 months of use.
  • Most Math-Whizzers should spend 45 to 60 minutes per week with Math-Whizz. Such students can expect to improve their math ages by between 1.3 and 1.6 years over 12 months.
  • Students who are gifted and talented (and have maths ages beyond their actual age) can be challenged and make great progress with just 30 minutes of Math-Whizz per week.

The graph below summarises the math age improvements for the groups of students with weekly usage times of 10 minutes and up.

 

 

If you want to find out more about this research, email us at support@whizz.com.

 

This gets the ball rolling on our new Math-Whizz Research page. We'll be posting more findings and links to relevant articles in the weeks and months to come.

 

* (i.e. subscribed to Math-Whizz Tutoring Plus services as of May 2009.)


Research Documents

View Whizz Education's research documents. Click the links below.

PDFMath-Whizz Proof Pack

Research News

Read up on education research findings that underscore the Math-Whizz method.

Summer learning loss

[A review of 39 studies that indicates significant test score decline over the summer break]

Tuesdays are best

[Math-Whizzers prove that we get the most work done on Tuesdays. Math-Whizz's whenever, wherever access to unlimited tutoring makes this possible]

It's OK to fail

[Trying and failing to find an answer can help recall when you eventually learn the solution, the Scientific American reports.]