Anyone got some experience of Mathletics?

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DD who is 6 has been given access to this by her school, and we are loving it. It's great. Just have a few questions:

1. DD has got all the gold bars, but nothing has happened. Do the gold bars entitle them to some award?

1. DD gets certificates to go to the bronze cafe. However, this just takes her to a picture of some people in a cafe. Is that it? What happens in silver balcony? (I know, I know, I need to get a life!)

1. DD has worked hard over the summer hols on Mathletics. Will her teacher know about this? Do they get reports of what pupils do over the summer? I think it would be very encouraging for her if her new teacher was to comment on her efforts.

Thanks.

1. Gold bars just represent how far though the level they are no award.
2. Every fifth certificate is a silver one. When you enter my awards if you click on silver balcony you will go there. Every 20th certificate is a gold one. You can only get one certificate per week.
3. Yes teachers get a report. You can also register as. Parent and get a weekly report.

How do you register as a parent for mathletics?

A friend gets it for her DC through their school and raves about it..

Awful

To register as a parent you need your child's log in details and you go to www.mathletics.com/parents/ .
You then get a weekly report detailing time they have been on, points scored and marks in each activity.

Is it possible to participate in Mathletics as individuals (rather than it being accessed through a school membership)? TIA

Yes it is go to subscription section of main page.
DD's school have used it for quite a while hence I know quite a bit. It seems to be best for children who find maths easy and or enjoy it. It does not teach concepts rather reinforces what has been learnt in the classroom. This means it is less successful for children who do not enjoy or find maths difficult.
I suspect most maths websites are horses for courses.

What age does it go up to?

DS is going into yr4 and maths obsessed (and very able), DD is going into yr1 and is quite good as far as I can tell but lacks confidence.

Goes though to end of KS3.

Thanks

Brilliant - thanks. Managed to miss the subscription option when I looked before. Am off to sign up!

I think it's pants.

Our school had had it for years and nobody seems to enjoy doing it. its quite clunky as websites go.

The school will be able to check on the certificates to see how much they are doing. If you get 1000 points for 20 weeks, not consecutively, you get a go,d certificate. Sunday at midnight is the cut off point. Out school gives the golds out in assembly.

It goes up to a-level standard now.

I have taught at a school where it was used as a tightly targeted tool to support practise. Teachers would set specific activities to be done within class time.

For example, if I was teaching 24 hour clock to most of the class, but I knew that one group were still struggling with telling the half and quarter hours, I could set them going on suitable time-telling activities on Mathletics on the classroom computers while I did the main class input. Then, once the rest of the class were busy on their task, I could work with the support group to move them forward.

I also used it as extension for the higher abilities when they'd finished the main task, but still using tasks that I had assigned to them.

Our boys' school has everyone signed up and use it to set homework in KS2. Haven't been impressed so far, they boys like it for a little bit but get frustrated when the bugs show up - the same question over and over again, or not being able to put in the right answer (or being told the right answer is wrong).

That said, they're doing well at maths anyway - DS1 is level 4b at the end of year 4 - but I think that's more to do with DH being an ex maths teacher than mathletics.

We've found the one they like more is BBC bitesize, worth a try (and free!).