Something new and exciting for students aged 11-16

Learnalot is a SMART-accredited, game-based learning portal that uses high-quality resources to facilitate skills-based teaching in maths. Its aim is to make teaching and learning genuinely fun and engaging for students aged 11-16.

Game-based learning at its best - designed by teachers and games designers together

Our resources have been designed by teachers and developed by software industry veterans, combining teaching and learning with multimedia experiences that have more in common with video games than text books.

Real fun, real personalised learning

Our resources are designed to develop thinking, reasoning and problem solving skills by presenting the learner with real-life challenges that engage their thought processes in new ways, using topics that students can relate to in their day-to-day lives in the 21st Century in a style that they are used to from their video games.

Need something that caters for the gifted and talented?

This is your answer! There's nothing worse than having able students become bored and disengaged while they wait for the rest of the class to catch up. Our resources allow such students to apply and develop the knowledge and skills that they have gained so that they can see a real purpose to their learning.

Looking for inclusion for all?

Our resources offer personalised learning, allowing every student to achieve success at their own level. The nature of the challenges means that every student can develop at their own pace and the element of competition appeals to the competitive nature of the students - even the ones that normally aren't engaged by maths.

Reading for purpose exercises

Literacy across the curriculum is a big issue in schools and enhancing literacy in a maths lesson can be a struggle! Our resources provide plenty of opportunity for 'reading for purpose' exercises - with the less able supported through audio so that their mathematical abilities need not suffer just because they can't fully access the text.

For Parents, Students and Teachers

Our portal is available both to schools and to home users encouraging extended learning and allowing parents to become involved in their child's education.

School subscriptions allow teachers to create and manage an unlimited number of student accounts so that everyone within the school has access to the portal. Home subscriptions allow parents or guardians to create up to 5 child accounts which can each access Learnalot independently should their local school not yet be a subscriber.

A subscription provides access to every resource and game that we have in exchange for an annual charge, but we also offer a free account that provides you with a number of sample resources and games.

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 directly translating 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. Essentially, our students are entertained while being educated.

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?

Some of our testimonials...

Your resources are excellent - the best skills-based learning resources for maths I've seen.
- Melanie Blount, NGfL-Cymru

The look of the site has immediately caught the interest of pupils who I know love to spend time on X-Box/PlayStation at home. Harnessing an existing interest for a learning purpose is probably the Mecca of education. I would love to know if you might have plans for a KS2 version at some stage?
- Steph Ladbrooke, teacher

Learnalot is very easy to navigate around and also very easy to use. Mostly I like it because it's very challenging and it's boosting me up for next year - it's great!
- Adam, student

Great website for revision especially for me and I'm in year 11. Amazing website!
- Alex, student

It's really good because the score boards show you how you're doing against your friends and other people. It's another way for preparing us for our SATs. Cops and Robbers is my favourite because I feel like a detective.
- James, student

Learnalot is a great site for many different types of maths. I'm 11 years old and my favourite resource is Settlers as I'm 1st and my favourite games are the division-based ones.
- Owen, student