Comments on: MyMaths.co.uk – A Review

By: Daniel Stucke

Daniel Stucke — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 10:07:00 +0000

Raising achievement is always hard to pin down to one particular aspect of what we do. But I’d still say that it was well worth the price. Although it’s now used in collaboration with other websites such as http://www.mangahigh.com and http://www.khanacademy.org I think it still represents good value for money. I find it particularly great for use in class on the whiteboard. Clear explanations / diagrams to use for demonstration and the homeworks etc make a good, short set of questions for pupils to complete in class. It’s dramatically cut down on the volume of photocopying / textbooks we use which makes it worth the price on that point alone.

By: Ronnie

Ronnie — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 19:55:00 +0000

Ive just been offered a free trial of my maths and wondering how other subject leaders are getting on with it. Is it raising attainment in your school, is it worth the money?
Ronnie

By: Dan Stucke

Dan Stucke — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:26:16 +0000

via email:

Dear Daniel,

I noted Richard’s fustration for being unable to use the my maths site using linux.
To be honest we are but it is understandable as most sites assume that everybody has Windows.

We are a windows free house and have been using Ubuntu Linux for 4 years.
I have found a way of using Mymaths for my son and I would like to share it with all other linux users.
Unfortunately I can not post a reply to Richards therefore I hope that you might be able to pass on my advice described below:

How to access MyMaths- for Linux users

1. install wine
2. download firefox for windows version (not linux)
3. install firefox for windows under wine
4. run firefox windows and seach for mymaths. Log in as normal

I hope that the above will work for others as it does for us.

God Bless.
Florin Burlacu

By: mrbailey

mrbailey — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:43:17 +0000

just got back aqa mod 1 results back and my express set got 23 A* after doing no written homework and pure mymaths. year 10, 33 in the class who enjoy the homework. best results ever.

replied to myself, hows it going for everyone else?

By: MrStucke

MrStucke — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 20:07:48 +0000

Harsh words!

I have to say I haven’t tried it with a Linux machine, but in it’s defence it works fine on a Mac, and fine with IE, Firefox, Chrome & Safari – so there are non-MS options.

I’m no fan of flash though so I can see you point, and it prohibits iPhone / itouch use which would be a potential bonus with pupils in this day and age.

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:42:59 +0000

I should like to add I find the technical implementation of the website appalling!
The style of the site being Flash Only and generally Windows ONLY is dreadful. Implicitly the site is reinforcing the “Microsoft” TAX most parents families pay- but forcing people to have purchased from windows o/s from Microsoft to access this site
In my house ALL the PC’s are Linux based and while my operating systems happily can use the Flash plugin (from adobe) this site patently refuses to run – as the underlying technology to build the site is Microsoft ONLY – (.apsx files).
It is very sad -as there are MANY other OPEN SOURCE ways of achieving what this site is trying to do.

By: mrbailey

mrbailey — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 19:27:11 +0000

I love mymaths and have set up online homework for the school. homework rates and content covered in lessons has increased in quality. does it improve thinking skills? does it improve exam success? does ofsted like it? we’ll see by august, but if anyone has any knowledge of year one and two progress after implentation…could you please reply thanks

By: MrStucke

MrStucke — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:33:27 +0000

Just spotted that you can now hyperlink to a specific part of mymaths e.g. http://mymaths.co.uk/gold/negatives/negatives1.html (obviously login is required)

By: MrStucke

MrStucke — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 11:43:36 +0000

Hi Zdenka,
I’ve just signed up my new school to MyMaths, despite the fact my new role includes developing a VLE. I have not seen any Maths materials available for VLEs which would even come close to the quality that MyMaths provides. I would agree that it is inconvenient having yet another website & set of logins for pupils, however I would say it is worth the hassle. When we have a VLE up and running properly I would hope the Maths department will have prominent links out to MyMaths. If they are using it to set home-works they could leave notes on the Maths VLE page whenever they do so.
As you will see from some of my other posts, I’m not the biggest fan of straight-jacketing staff into a single VLE solution and insisting they use only the tools within it. If you know of any VLE based Maths software that’s worth looking at (I assume it would have to be SCORM compliant) I’d be interested to hear. I would like to see VLEs more as the central communication hub for schools and for classes within that, where staff can communicate with students and can link to appropriate resources for their studies (MyMaths in this case). Perhaps MyMaths could allow the possibility of hyper-linking to specific parts of their site, this would make this a more seamless process. The fact MyMaths is Flash based makes this more difficult, but I wouldn’t have thought it impossible.
Dan

By: Zdenka Evans

Zdenka Evans — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 13:38:26 +0000

Hello, this is a bit out of date so I wonder since this review if you’ve implemented a vle solution in your school? Our maths dpt is VERY enthusiastic about myMaths but we are trying to get the vle off the ground and this is pretty much a standalone vle which you can’t integrate into our system(company doesn’t want to know).

If you have a vle, do you still pay subscription to the above,or does it run alongside it?