AL KHOR

INTERNATIONAL
SCHOOL (British Stream)

Virtual Learning Environment

“It‟s just like having your own teacher at home
24 hours a day, 7 days a week!”

Over the past few years our school has invested heavily in
providing quality online educational resources to help our students
at home in term time as well as during the long summer holidays.

Here are some details of how to access these websites and a few
tips on how to get the most out of them.

www.mathletics.com

All children have their own personal logon details and password for this site,
which you must have in order to use it. If your child doesn’t then ask their
teacher to get it for you.

As a parent you can sign up to receive weekly reports about your child’s
progress and achievements (have a look at the last page to see how to do
this).

Since the beginning of the school year in September 2009 the pupils in the
Primary School have correctly answered an amazing 6.2 million questions
on the Mathletics website. Of this total 4.4 million have been on the Live
Mathletics part of the site and 1.8 million on curriculum questions.

Live Mathletics Levels

Live Mathletics works best when students compete
at the right level for them.

In order to help facilitate this, teachers can set the

minimum level that each student can play on.

If your child is scoring more than 20 at a

particular level then encourage them to
play a higher level and perhaps ask their
teacher to block the lower levels.

Although they might enjoy the success, it is a

waste of their time scoring lots of points on a level
that they have already mastered!
 Live Mathletics
What type of questions are at each
LEVEL?
On the Live Mathletics part of the website pupils get the
chance to challenge other students from all over the world by
answering questions in a 60 second game.

Dice and card games are a fantastic way to sharpen

your Rapid Recall skills. Check out the back page for a
list of possible games.

Addition to 10 Addition to 20 Addition to 99 Addition to 99 Mixed Patterns

Subtraction to 10 Subtraction to 20 Subtraction to 99 ( +, -, x, ÷ )
2 & 5 Times Table Multiplication Harder Additions
Division Subtraction to 99

Practice - Curriculum Questions

On the main part of the website students have the chance
to practice questions on topics they have covered in class.

This can also be used to revisit other parts of the

curriculum and help to keep skills ticking over.

Click on the to look at an example of the

method that should be used to solve the problem.

Your child will get the best

results from Mathletics if they
use it regularly and for short
periods of time - about 20
minutes per session, 3 times a
week.
Other parts of the Mathletics website
Another fantastic feature available on the website is the ‘Problem Solving’ section.
Rainforest Maths and Spellodrome can also be accessed from Mathletics. Pupils use the
same passwords for Spellodrome as they use for Mathletics.

www.spellodrome.com
Spellodrome
This site was created by the same company that runs Mathletics. It can be accessed via
Mathletics or by going directly to www.spellodrome.com Remember, pupils use the same
passwords that they use for Mathletics.

With the right balance of stimulation

and support this website helps
develop independent learning and
improve spelling and sentence
structure.

The site is continually developing

and will soon contain more
grammar based activities - perfect
for students with English as a
second language.
 www.mymaths.co.uk
This is a fantastic Maths website that provides
online lessons, games and worksheets (that are
marked online).

Go to www.mymaths.co.uk and login using the

school passwords akips and circle.

Some students have also got their own extra

passwords that allow their teacher to keep track of
what they have done.

Don’t worry if your child doesn’t have one - they can

still access and use the entire website with just the
school passwords.

The curriculum is split up into these categories.

The screenshot below shows a typical lesson.

Choose a level that is at, or perhaps one Use the ‘Talk to me’ option
above, the level that your child is currently to have the lesson read to
working at. You will get your child’s current you.
Teacher Assessed level from the end of year
school report.

Booster Packs - this is one of

the best features on the website.
The packs contain all the lessons,
games and practice worksheets
your child needs to help them move up to
the next level.
 www.gridclub.com
The school has recently added this award winning
site to it’s elearning
platform.

The passwords you

need to access the
site are:
Just click on „Sign In‟ and type in the
Username: alk025
passwords on the left.
Password: 22166

GridClub has over 500 activities linked to the curriculum. It is designed for ages 5-12. It
is one of the most popular educational websites because of it’s innovative design and fun
approach to learning.

Please do not share these passwords - or put them on a website - as they are only
licensed to be used by pupils at Al Khor International School.
 DICE GAMES and CARD GAMES

A very enjoyable and easy way to help

sharpen your mental maths skills.

You can make your own cards and buy some dice, 6 sided
ones are fine, you just have to be more inventive!

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Below are some suggestions for activities but you
could always make up your own games.
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Level 1 games:
 Roll one dice or pick one card and call out the number you need to add to
it to make 10.
 Roll one dice or pick one card and call out double the number.
 Roll two dice or pick two cards and call out the difference between the
two numbers.
 Roll two dice or pick two cards and add them together.

Level 2 games:
 Roll one dice or pick one card and call out the number you
need to add to it to make 20.
 Roll two dice or pick two cards, add them together then double the
number.
 Roll one dice or pick one card and multiply the number by 5.
 Roll one dice or pick one card and multiply the number by 10.
 Roll one dice or pick one card, multiply the number by 10 and then call
out the number you need to add to get to 100.

Level 3 games:
Roll one dice or pick one card and multiply the number by 7, 8 or 9.

You could combine several games together. For example:

Pick 2 cards - add them together - double the answer - then

times this by 8