Engaging Today's Maths Students With Learnalot

Online, April 5, 2011 (Newswire.com) - How does one capture the imagination of today's learners with a discipline that many of them have already categorised as 'boring' by their 11th birthday? How can such a discipline hope to compete with other, more 'glamorous' subjects - let alone with all of the other distractions that vie for students' attention such as video games and music?

At Learnalot (http://www.learnalot.com) they decided the best way to tackle this problem was to fuse maths with video game-style graphics and music together to create role-based scenarios where the student was tasked with solving a particular problem.

Whether saving the world from a giant asteroid, ridding a haunted house of ghosts or recapturing escaped convicts, their learners are presented with a problem and then asked to solve it by using maths skills that are hand-picked from around the curriculum to create believable and valuable activities.

Performance is tracked for teachers and parents to monitor and scores are displayed on ranked leaderboards, promoting friendly rivalry between classmates and peers from around the world. With improving their position on the global leaderboards a powerful incentive, Learnalot's learners repeatedly play through the activities and games in order to perfect their skills and shave valuable seconds off their times.

The learner is always presented with a fresh problem as the questions and underlying data are randomly generated, so the process is always about perfecting skill and increasing knowledge and never about simply remembering previous answers.

Learnalot allows teachers to forget about preparation and marking and focus on delivering the best possible lesson as each resource also comes with supporting worksheets, teacher's notes and lesson plans - which have all been prepared by experienced teachers.

You can sign up to Learnalot's basic package for free just by filling an application form at http://www.learnalot.com/free or you can become a subscriber and get access to their exclusive premium content as well. A 20% subscription discount is running until the end of April.

There is also a demo resource available on the website complete with supporting documents should you wish to sample the software without even registering.

With 10% of the UK's schools already signed up just weeks after launch, Learnalot is proving a hit with teachers, parents and students alike. Register today and see for yourself how successful Learnalot is at engaging learners of all ages with maths.