Carol Vorderman

Carol's got the Maths Factor

Carol Vorderman launches her online maths school www.themathsfactor.com

Carol Vorderman, Britain’s most famous numbers expert, has launched her new online maths school www.themathsfactor.com this week, the world’s first structured online maths school which teaches children as well as their parents. Here she talks to Northern Life Family about The Maths Factor.
The website is packed with fun things for children to do and they will receive five compulsory maths sessions per week, each lasting from 15 – 20 minutes. Each session includes video lessons from Carol, maths to music (times tables with dancers and rap and rock & roll), interactive games, rewards, feedback and avatars, but it requires plenty of practice using the proper language of maths and its symbols.
Carol says “I am so proud of The Maths Factor. It’s the culmination of years of work so that children and their parents can learn maths in the simplest way possible. Anyone can be good with numbers if they are taught well and they practice, and The Maths Factor will prove it.”
“We have built technology so that children will learn at their own pace, and a love of numbers will be inherent in everything we do. I also explain to parents all of the new numeracy methods taught in schools and tell them every week exactly what their child is about to learn and what games they can play away from the computer.”
“I believe that our Learn The Times Tables course is simply the best available in the world. There really is nothing like it in book form or on the internet. By the end of the package, children will know up to 12 x 12 automatically and the world of mathematics will open up for them.”
“As a Mum, I know how hard it can be for parents to know exactly what to do to encourage children with maths, so we also provide games for each precise piece of learning to print out and play. I simply want all children to be the very best they can be with numbers, arithmetic and mathematics. Please come and try some free sessions to see what I mean.”
Parents need never struggle with maths homework again. In fact, they will start to enjoy it thoroughly; recent surveys have stated that 4 out of 5 parents say that maths homework causes arguments at home. There is also a unique system for parents to automatically reward their children if they complete a certain number of homeworks, which has been developed so that children and parents can learn together.
The aim of www.themathsfactor.com is clear – the development of the child is the priority, as is nurturing their love and understanding of maths.
Parents pay for private maths lessons for their children at prices ranging from £25 to £60 per hour in Central London.
Themathsfactor.com offers excellent maths tutoring 24 hours a day, seven days a week from £10 per month (with an average of £5 per month for the Learn The Times Tables package, depending on the progress of each child).
So for two hours of tutoring PER YEAR in Central London, a parent and child could learn with Carol every day, all year round.
The site will launch with arithmetic and times tables for children from age 4 to 12, quickly rising to cover all maths up to age 16. Themathsfactor.com will add algebra, trigonometry and every other part of maths in a few short months, followed by adult numeracy by the end of the year.
This is the culmination of Carol’s dream to bring excellence and excitement to maths so that everyone can enjoy it. Why? Because she believes it can change a child’s world.
www.themathsfactor.com with Carol Vorderman is available from the first week in March.