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A teacher turned entrepreneur has created an innovative maths learning system powered by artificial intelligence to free up teachers from routine teaching and marking tasks so they can spend more time on tailored, individual tuition. Rob Percival hopes Blutick will bring the benefits of private tuition to all secondary school pupils. The system gives students intelligent, line-by-line feedback in real time as they work through Maths questions. Every line of working is checked and, as well as correcting mistakes, it gives advice – for example, highlighting if there is a better way of doing a calculation – just like a personal tutor. Backed by the Cambridge Angels investor group, it has been developed over the last two years in collaboration with The Perse School in Cambridge to ensure the platform and its content helps to build students’ understanding and confidence in Maths. “As a teacher, it was always a challenge to give pupils enough individual attention in class – there were never enough hours in the day,” said Rob.
RIGHT Rob Percival was a Maths teacher for ten years before founding Blutik
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“Blutick is designed to take the pressure off by distilling the techniques of the best teachers into an AI system that can help share the load in the classroom. It can also be used at home to give every child their own personal tutor at a fraction of the usual cost – it’s cheaper than a Netflix subscription.” Blutick covers the full UK 11 to 16 Maths curriculum, aligned to all major exam boards. Find out more at blutick.com
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