Learning through fun

By appealing to students' interests outside of the maths class and to their natural competitiveness on the leaderboards, Learnalot engages students and increases their interest, motivation and determination which directly translates into improved results.

Our students learn while performing tasks that they genuinely find enjoyable. They feel that they are fulfilling an important role in a real-life scenario rather than simply taking part in a maths lesson, and this is why our students see such major performance increases in such short periods of time.

Improving performance through competition

Competition is actively encouraged with online leaderboards for every resource and game, as well as an overall leaderboard that ranks total scores across the site.

The natural competitiveness among children and their desire to post higher scores than their friends is something that we leverage and channel into improving students’ knowledge and performance in maths - skills and knowledge that are invaluable irrespective of the career path a student should take in the future.

Self-marking resources and games

All of our resources and games mark and grade students automatically at the end of their activity. Not only are their scores immediately posted to the appropriate leaderboards but their performance is also tracked in the teachers'/parents' area for the relevant person to monitor.

Engaging to all students of all ages and all abilities

Our portal has been shown to engage students of all ages and all abilities in ways that other portals simply don't. This includes students of higher ability who can sometimes become disengaged through lack of challenge as well as students who are less able thanks to our extensive range of supporting worksheets and hints.

Learnalot is also great for engaging boys who are traditionally disinterested in maths as the competitive nature of the leaderboards draws them in.

Letting teachers get on with teaching

All of our resources come with detailed lesson plans and teacher notes that have been written by experienced teachers which means teachers who use our portal spend less time preparing for lessons and more time on delivering engaging lessons.

The resources also come with extensive supporting worksheets which enable teachers to introduce topics to their students before attempting a resource quickly and easily without further work. Parents can also use these worksheets with their children to help explain concepts and processes in ways that are easy to understand.

Quickly identifying areas for improvement

The teachers' area allows teachers to quickly and easily identify areas of weakness that may need further attention as well as areas where the student has excelled and requires no further assistance. This enables teachers to target their time and resources in areas that will yield the most rewards in tests and exams.

Parents can also access the parents' area for similar information on their child so that they have the option to help their child from home.

Quickly and easily setting homework

Teachers can set specific resource activities or games as homework and check on their students' performance and results in the teachers' area when the homework has been completed.

Tangible rewards for hard work

In case global recognition with their names up in lights is not enough, Learnalot also offers students tangible rewards for hard work by periodically issuing prizes.

The winner of our previous competition, Thomas Shabha from Pedmore Primary in Dudley was the proud recipient of a laptop for posting the highest score on our Cops and Robbers resource!

With that kind of incentive on offer, who wouldn't want to help save the world from a giant asteroid or recapture escaped convicts?