What is Whizz Education?
Whizz Education is a partner accountable to learning outcomes. We believe that every child deserves a learning experience that caters to their individual needs.
Since 2004, we have partnered with parents, schools and ministries of education around the world to deliver individualised learning programmes. The Maths-Whizz virtual tutoring platform has reached over 1.5 million students across the globe and is proven to accelerate learning.
Globally, students receiving Maths-Whizz individualised learning for 60 minutes a week improve their maths age by, on average, over 18 months in their first year.
Recommended Usage
We guarantee that your child will make a year or more of progress in the first 12 months of Maths Whizz tutoring with just 60 minutes of usage per week. Terms and conditions apply.
Educational Impact
Additional evidence
 Company | Business Name: Whizz Education HQ Location: United Kingdom Founded: 2004 |
| Age Range | 5-7, 8-10, 11-13 |
 Features | Individualised TutoringEducational Programme DesignIn-field SupportReal-time Monitoring, Evaluation And LearningSystem-wide Capacity BuildingEvidence-based InsightsLarge-scale Teacher Training |
 Languages | English, French, Spanish, Thai |
 Accessibility | Moderate features |
 Policies |  Terms of ServicePrivacy PolicyGDPR |
 Requirements | Internet - Low BandwidthInternet - High BandwidthDesktop - MacDesktop - WindowsDesktop - ChromebookMobile - iPad Internet connection needed and ICT equipment for every child. |
 Set Up | 3 days |
 Training | In PersonLive OnlineWebinarsDocumentationVideos Schools: To ensure that your Senior Leaders, Maths leads, and teachers have a solid understanding of how to make the most efficient and effective use of our individualised learning solutions, we will provide a thorough remote-learning experience that introduces how our partnership operates, the differentiated and scaffolded virtual tutoring service, our methods of continuous formative assessment and advise on any remedial action required, ensuring we are always accountable for learning outcomes. |
 Support | EmailFAQs/ForumKnowledge BasePhone Support Live chat available during UK school hours |
| Home Learning | Parent Access Anyone can create the account. Parfents can sign up for a 7-days free trial here: https://www.whizz.com/maths-whizz-free-trial/ |
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Whizz Education PricingPricing Plans Free TrialPaid Subscription Whizz Education pricing starts from £2295 / year Example based on 60 students, Pricing varies according to the services provided and whether you are a group of schools, a school, a single class, or a parent. Speak to one of the team members at Whizz Education for more details or complete our online enquiry form.  Optimised for a quick response | |
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Whizz Education Reviews
from 15 Verified Reviews
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May 2023
It is a excellent programme for schools to use and it helps build children's skills, confidence and enthusiasm in maths
Catriona found Whizz Education:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“It lessens planning and preparation time and helps with pupil assessment”
- Significantly reduces attainment gap“The frequent use of whizz maths helps build maths skills and confidence”
- Significantly provides school data“The assessment test gives a picture of where a child is at”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“You can be more efficient in your day and spend time working on areas where children actually need support. It make sit easier to differentiate your support an teaching time”
- Slightly improves parent engagement“Children are enthusiastic about whizz maths and tell their parents about it”
Mar 2023
I think the platform is brilliant at supporting children's maths. I would give it a 10 but for a few things that I would personally have different on it. But this is a personal thing
James Smith found Whizz Education:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“No marking of homework. Easy to see areas children have improved and need to develop”
- Significantly reduces attainment gap“Children can/are making accelerated progress when using the platform”
- Significantly provides school data“Gives us data that we share with parents regarding areas that the children need to develop in”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“Can be used to support maths lessons for the teacher”
- Slightly improves parent engagement
Mar 2023
I only see benefits with the tuition programme.
Alex Michael found Whizz Education:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“With our carousel lessons, provides work for groups of children to access, tailored to their level and learning.”
- Moderately reduces attainment gap“Those that are regularly making 3+ progressions have made good progress, this can be seen on Whizz as well as our in house data.”
- Significantly provides school data“Those children that have made accelerated progress - this can be seen in our in house assessments.”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“Gives an indication of where the children are at and where they need to get to.”
- Moderately improves parent engagement“81% of parents have created a login. They talk regularly about Maths Whizz. They would like greater insight into what their child is learning.”
Mar 2023
Whizz is a great online platform that is individual to each student and reduces teacher workload but also informative about student progress.
Amelia Nielsen found Whizz Education:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Teacher does not have to plan for 1 lesson each week as they have Whizz timetabled in.”
- Significantly reduces attainment gap“A few students who do not participate regularly in maths have increased their confidence and knowledge in certain topics.”
- Significantly provides school data“Helps the teacher focus on particular areas of weakness”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Helps teacher plan areas to focus on”
- Significantly improves parent engagement“Parents encourage students to play at home”
Mar 2023
Like how it is personalised to the child and it is great for homework. The information on minutes usage and progression points is easily accessible and we use this to celebrate in assembly
Lee Mayes found Whizz Education:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“We use it for homework so teachers do not need to plan homework tasks”
- Slightly reduces attainment gap
- Moderately provides school data“Looking to see which year group curriculum the children are working on and who is accessing the programme”
- Does not significantly improve teaching efficiency
- Slightly improves parent engagement
Claire
Assistant Head Teacher
Used Whizz Education daily for 1-2 years
Mar 2023
The children love going on Whizz and love the new reports.
Claire found Whizz Education:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Refreshes children's knowledge of past topics regularly so less additional planning of these is needed. It also provides clear AFL opportunities.”
- Moderately reduces attainment gap“Children who are just behind in their learning tend to catch up quickly.”
- Moderately provides school data“Knowing their maths age allows us to work out SEN and interventions. Alongside seeing the gaps in their knowledge.”
- Slightly improves teaching efficiency“Gives staff guidance with children's gaps.”
- Slightly improves parent engagement“The year groups who have been involved in flipped learning it has had a big impact as it is a clear place to guide children to use. This is also the case with children who are new to the country.”
Mar 2023
The children enjoy using Maths Whizz and engage with our expectation of 3 progressions per week well. Teachers report that they make use of the feedback and analysis tools to move learning forward. The Maths Whizz team are always willing and helpful and go above and beyond to support the school.
Lorna Blackhurst found Whizz Education:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Tailors learning to the individual need. Analyses performance. Ready-made celebrations of achievement.”
- Significantly reduces attainment gap“Following the pandemic, there were considerable gaps in the children's knowledge of topic such as shape, space and measure and statistics, as shown in our first assessments post-pandemic. In our most recent assessments, the gaps in these topics are considerably lessened.”
- Significantly provides school data“Maths age scores per topic which supports our gap analysis in school assessments”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Helping with suitable preteach and post-teach materials. intutiatively adapting questions to pupils' performance”
- Slightly improves parent engagement“Some parents attended the Maths Whizz parents workshop we ran. Parents do react positively to celebration certificates.”
Mar 2023
Easy of Programme, usefulness to school, customer service, children's engagement in maths and ongoing support are all 'top notch'
Steve Dew found Whizz Education:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Maths Lessons pitched at the top end of the child's cognitive capacity reducing the effective class size by 6 children each day”
- Significantly reduces attainment gap“Children far more resilient when faced with challenging maths problems because of the way that the programme is set up children need to practise a variety of maths functions throughout one lesson rather over a week or so.”
- Significantly provides school data“Weekly reports for school, year group, class and pupils detailing progressions and acquired skills”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“see Q1”
- Moderately improves parent engagement“Children access the programme at home as an extension to during school time. Whizz maths have also conducted very well attended parent sessions in school too.”
Mar 2023
I think the biggest impact it has on our students is the ability to continue to practise their key maths skills in a fun and engaging way.
Jane Gardiner found Whizz Education:
- Slightly reduces teacher workload“Maths Whizz compliments the maths teaching rather than reducing work load.”
- Moderately reduces attainment gap“Maths Whizz is useful for allowing students to keep on practising their key maths building blocks, so that fewer interventions are needed and students progress at a faster rate.”
- Moderately provides school data“For our school, Maths Whizz reports is another tool to help us to check the consistency in our own assessments and allows us to see areas that students may be finding more tricky.”
- Slightly improves teaching efficiency“Students can continue to practise the skills they have learned in the lessons so that they stay fresh in their mind, which means the next time the topic is taught, there is less recap work that needs to be done.”
- Moderately improves parent engagement“Some parents are very engaged in the process and some students continue to carry out tasks on Maths Whizz at home regularly. We are going to have a push on students using Maths Whizz for homework.”
Mar 2023
Simple to use, effective and engaging
Richard found Whizz Education:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“When a student finishes a task, they use MW rather than the teacher finding more resources”
- Slightly reduces attainment gap“All of our students have EHCPs and work on a personalised timetable”
- Does not significantly provide school data
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Less wasted time in maths lessons”
- Slightly improves parent engagement
Debbie Lee
Class room teacher ,Head of Year 4v and Maths Lead
Used Whizz Education daily for 3-4 years
Mar 2023
We are very pleased with the program and the back up from Maths Whizz
Debbie Lee found Whizz Education:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Great for challenge activities for year 4 and as homework for year 5 and 6”
- Slightly reduces attainment gap“Useful extra consolidation after maths lesson and in spare moments”
- Significantly provides school data“We can look at maths age as an extra formative assessment”
- Slightly improves teaching efficiency“Fills gaps usefully deals with homework”
- Slightly improves parent engagement“No comment”
May 2022
It's really good, but can be a bit glitchy on some lessons
Claire found Whizz Education:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Constant assessing and finding areas where the child is struggling”
- Moderately reduces attainment gap“It can be accessed on phones and ipads at home when out of school.”
- Moderately provides school data“child levels and overall class levels can be found quickly”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“it's tailored to the individual child, at their pace so there is little boredom”
- Slightly improves parent engagement“Parents are happy to let them play on it, but I'm not sure they understand how it works all the time”
Mar 2022
User friendly and effective.
Adam found Whizz Education:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Homework doesn't need to be set as children just need to log in. Children can go on for support or extension in class.”
- Moderately reduces attainment gap“It certainly helps lower attaining children accelerate their progress. More able also progress more so the gap probably stays the same”
- Significantly provides school data“Live maths ages support summative assessment. Formative assessment from topic strand data for children and whole classes”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Instantly available to use during whole class teaching and for individuals to use independently”
- Moderately improves parent engagement“Parents prefer it to other platforms”
Mrs Birks
Coordinator Area Learning Supervisor
Used Whizz Education daily for 3-4 years
Oct 2021
Whizz is an inclusive, fun, actively based program which gives nothing but help to the children, school and teacher.
Mrs Birks found Whizz Education:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“We use it for homework and to consolidate learning”
- Significantly reduces attainment gap“Through using fun activities with tech is an incentive for the children to learn without knowing they are learning.”
- Significantly provides school data“I personally create Excel sheets so the teachers can see at a glance who has been using whizz and we give certificates to celebrate their achievements every week in assembly.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Because it can be linked to class work it is very efficient and can be used to aid children in the lesson.”
- Significantly improves parent engagement“Through class dojo we keep our parents informed on the certificates and this in turn pushes them on to making time for their children to go on whizz. We also have parent information and they can see at a glance where their child is.”
Oct 2021
Been a very positive experience for us.
R KAUR found Whizz Education:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“maths monitoring reports”
- Moderately reduces attainment gap“pupil progress results (prior)”
- Moderately provides school data“reports for governors”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“Monitoring maths ages and exploration of the strands in maths being taught (prior knowledge)”
- Slightly improves parent engagement“Parents do enjoy seeing children use this.”