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, numeracy tests, look - and - listen times tables practice and achievement tests - all designed to help your child do well in school.
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
No gaps - Made for NZ kids
Maths games - beat the clock and meet the challenge
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!
Assessing Your Child’s Progress
Maths Wiz has Achievement tests for each chapter and year level.
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.
Testimonial
"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
Primary Maths Computer Tutor - Made for NZ Kids 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.
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.
This is a structured course, so students should progress through from top to bottom of each unit.