London, UK 16.03.2022 – Education partner, Whizz Education, is teaming-up with PiXL (Partners in Excellence) to deliver a suite of free summer learning activities across disciplines that will focus on the topic of climate change and ‘Building for a Greener Future.’ Activities will be based around the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals 7, 9, 11 and 13. They will encourage children to learn about the environments in which they live and to support the development of a sustainable world with a focus on STEM activities during the Summer Term and Summer break.
Fiona Goddard, Education Consultant at Whizz Education explains: “We know that Maths education is essential in developing an understanding of climate change. Without numbers, pupils would not understand ideals like the carbon budget or the limit of 1.5 degrees of warming at the centre of climate change debates. This learning could help pupils to deploy their maths in innovative, world-changing ways.
We are now inviting schools to join in with our Building for a Greener Future summer activities. Pupils could be measuring rainfall while elevating maths skills by collecting and recording how many millimetres of liquid is captured and discussing how to make the records useful, fair and impactful in the future. Getting involved with Whizz Education’s collaborative summer project with PiXL might provide other inspirations for local interests too! As well as teaching students to handle numbers, the summer project has the capacity to inspire, engage and empower. Numerous studies have shown that climate change education has the biggest impact when students are encouraged to take responsibility for learning about issues that impact them and their communities.
Join us and help make a difference! Whizz Education is an education partner dedicated to improving learning outcomes. For further information and to access free resources from Whizz Education and PiXL’s free summer climate project please see: https://www.whizz.com/summer-challenge-2022/
Notes to Editor About PiXL (Partners in Excellence) PiXL is a partnership of thousands of schools, colleges and alternative education providers spanning KS1-5. Our aim is to improve life chances and outcomes, influence school leaders and to help equip them to be agents of change. For further information please see: The PiXL Club – Home About Whizz Education Whizz Education is an education partner accountable for learning outcomes in maths. Since 2004, we have partnered with schools, ministries of education and development agencies to bring the power of individualized learning to over a million students worldwide through our award-winning AI software and programs. Our team has pioneered the use of adaptive learning technology to raise standards in maths. The result is that we have developed a quality, award-winning, live tutoring experience that results in measurable gains.
Suitable for children aged 5-13 years, our virtual tutor Maths-Whizz, if used for an average of 60 minutes per week, can improve “Maths Age” by more than 18 months in the first year of use. Our experienced educators work in partnership with school leadership to develop and implement a plan aligned with their defined objectives. We train teachers how to navigate our virtual tutoring service, its accompanying data and library, and instructional resources to deliver a more engaging and creative approach to math. The result is reinforced curriculum delivery and assessment, a quickened pace of learning outcomes and reduced workload for teachers.
For further information, please see: www.whizz.com
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