Posted January 5th, 2009 by Peter
Children who are poor at maths end up costing us a lot of money!
KPMG, accountants, have completed a study which suggests that children with poor numeracy were more likely to be unemployed, claim more benefits and pay less tax. The grand total of this works out at £2.4 billion a year!
Now the ‘Every Child a Chance Trust’ wants businesses to help raise £6m for projects at primary schools. This money will be used to target children as young as 7 and give them half an hour individual teaching every day over a period of 12 weeks.
There’s an easy way to make sure your children never reach the stage of needing extra help - of course, sign up for urbrainy!!
Posted December 10th, 2008 by Dave
Adding Up To Five Maths Game
To add to our “Going Along” section we have just added this great adding up to five game. The skateboards need to be dragged to the correct question. As always, there is speech reading out all the instructions. We hope you enjoy the game.
Tags: adding, going along, maths games
Posted December 9th, 2008 by Peter
Good news! Schoolchildren in England are doing rather better at maths than you might think! The Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (Timss) has just issued a report which states that our 10 year olds are among the best performers in the world. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted December 5th, 2008 by Dave
Counting Goats (Up To 10)
We have just put up our very first game in the “Going Along” section. Counting Goats is similar to the previous counting cows, but deals with numbers up to 10. We hope to bring you more games to the “Going Along” and even “Moving On” section soon. Watch this space.
Tags: counting, goats, going along, Maths, maths games
Posted December 4th, 2008 by Dave
Game: Counting Cows up to 5
We have just added a new counting game. The Objective is to count the number of cows on screen. It is an early level game, so only deals with number up to 5. We hope you find it useful. The game is of course available to our Silver members.
Tags: counting, cows, games, maths games, urbrainy
Posted November 27th, 2008 by Dave
We have launched our first interactive maths games. Our silver members get full access to all of them. If your not a silver member, you can still try one of the games FREE.
Try the great maths games.
Get Silver Membership to access all the games.
Tags: maths games
Posted November 24th, 2008 by Peter
Hello everyone
Very shortly we will be making some significant changes to the site to make it easier for you to find your way around. Having considered a number of comments and suggestions made to us we are simplifying the organisation of the Free and Bronze Membership worksheets. This will mean that some of the pages which were free will no longer be available, but there will be others available free. If there are particular pages which you know you want to use which you can currently access we suggest that you download them now as they might not be available soon.
Thanks
The URBrainy team
Posted November 18th, 2008 by admin
We are now working on building up a collection of great, fun maths games to support your child’s learning along with the worksheets. Each game will be practising one concept and will be playable online with no downloading necessary.
Sign up to our newsletter to be the first to know when they are released.
Posted November 4th, 2008 by Peter
For an incredibly short period of time we are offering a full year’s Silver Membership to the URBrainy site for just £8.00.
All you need to do is type in BONFIRE08 in the ‘Promotional Code’ during the signing up process and we will take 20% off the cost. But hurry, this offer only lasts until midnight on November 5th!
This will give you full access every day for a year to all the great activities and maths worksheets on the site and remember, there are new activities being added every month.
Posted November 3rd, 2008 by admin
November 5th is nearly upon us, the clocks have gone back and the night
starts earlier. What better way to brighten us all up than a set of Firework
maths worksheets? Of course Guy Fawkes ( or Guido as he was known to his
friends) came to a sticky end after trying to assasinate James 1st, the
King of England. Tortured and finally hanged, drawn and quartered he is
remembered every year, making him the most famous assassin of all times.
Bonfire Night Worksheets
