“I am most impressed that, using the Maths Wiz program, the students have successfully learnt difficult concepts without the ‘hard work’ which is generally associated with learning mathematics through conventional methods”.

G. Moran, B.Min., Dip.Theol., Dip.RE, TPTC
Head Master

Maths Wiz uses the power of the computer to make maths really easy to understand. Because it is interactive and fun, children take up the challenge and learn surprisingly rapidly. Yet Maths Wiz is not a game. It is a structured course, supporting all the topics which are needed in school.

The Maths Wiz primary program has hundreds of lessons with a total of five thousand interactive questions available in the exercises and tests. There are animations, teacher commentaries, state numeracy exams, look-and-listen times tables practice and achievement tests – all designed to help your child do well in school.

Kinetic Education is so confident that your children will succeed if they use the program properly, that they offer a money-back guarantee.

What makes Maths Wiz superior to any other program?

• Interactive questions make maths fun to do
• Recorded sound for beginner readers
• Teacher commentaries with animations
• Tutors to monitor your children’s progress
• No gaps - Aussie made for Aussie kids
• Maths games - beat the clock and meet the challenge
• Homework Helpline and Parent Helpline

 

 

Look and Listen

Our teachers have done voice-overs with animated pictures, to make maths easy and fun to learn. Please click the picture, to look and listen to part of a beginner lesson on addition.

 

Interactive Questions

Every lesson has interactive maths problems, which is a tremendously powerful feature. Having questions on the computer (rather than printed work-sheets) makes the program interactive and fun. It also means that the student is immediately corrected and can go on to get the next problem right – thus gaining confidence all the time.

 

Random Number Games

Beat-the-clock challenge games, with unlimited random numbers, help kids get up to speed with mental arithmetic. Add-ups, take-aways and times tables are basic maths skills, just like spelling is for English. The “warm-up” games in Maths Wiz are designed to make the student compute numbers without consciously thinking about it.

 

Assistance for Beginner Readers (Hover your mouse to hear the sound)

Beginner readers can click the sound icon to hear the lessons and questions read out. The computer even talks back to you, to tell the right answer!

Guidance from our tutors
Knowing that their work is being monitored by a tutor, and that a goal is being set by someone outside the home, encourages students to use the tutoring program on a regular basis.

Also, our tutoring staff can pick up on students who are not working in a productive manner, such as guessing instead of studying, working at a curriculum level which is too demanding, struggling to achieve or idling and give them the guidance that they need.

It’s really easy to send reports to the tutors. You just click a button on the menu and all of your children’s reports will be sent to our secure web-server.

Preparation for State Numeracy Tests

Maths Wiz has Achievement tests for each chapter and year level and also includes sample State Numeracy Tests for the AIMS test or BST etc.

Intervention program

Struggling students can fill in their knowledge gaps and catch up on lost work -Maths Wiz can be used as an intervention program for students who have fallen behind. Research has shown that weak students struggle because they do not have recall of number facts and do not understand place value (e.g. adding tens and ones).

No Gaps!

This is a structured course, so students should progress through from top to bottom of each unit. Maths needs lots of practice, so using the program makes sure that everything needed for school, is practiced and absorbed. The program marks and corrects immediately, so your child knows exactly what to do, and how to do it.

Making sure that you are ready for secondary school

In school, only the top students are expected to complete the primary maths course with thorough understanding. In fact, many go up to secondary school having only done a portion of the Upper Primary course. This means they are very unprepared to cope with high school, and this can result in a serious lack of self-esteem.

Kinetic Education students can go up to high school with confidence because they have learned and understood the mathematical principles that that they need to know.

Homework Help-lines

• Maths telephone and email help-lines
• Family help-line to answer your queries
• English essay email support

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
Runs on all recent Windows operating systems including Windows 98, 2000, XP and Windows Vista.
A minimum of 128 MB RAM, 4 MB VGA Card, 60 MB Hard drive space and a decent sound card.

 

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