How AI Tutors Are Scaling Quality Math Education – Third Space Learning

How AI Tutors Are Scaling Quality Math Education – Third Space Learning

From National Association for Primary Education by Mark Taylor

November 10, 2025 · 45 min

About this episode

The episode discusses how the AI maths tutor Skye enhances math education by providing personalized support and encouraging students to verbalize their reasoning.

The AI maths tutor that gets pupils reasoning out loud. Third Space Learning believe an AI tutor should do more than just generate questions and mark answers. What if it could provide scaffolded support according to knowledge gaps, speaking to students and encouraging them to verbalise their reasoning as they go? What if every pupil who needs it could work through maths problems in this way for one fixed low cost? Meet Skye, the low-cost AI maths tutor built by expert maths teachers Skye  mimics the behaviours of a pedagogically sound subject matter expert  and prompts ensures responses are effective, adaptable, and focused on improving understanding and increasing confidence. Prompts are specified in detail for each slide, and use insights from thousands of maths tutoring sessions to teach concepts effectively, address common misconceptions and ensure Skye adapts the pitch and pace of the session and personalises the instruction to suit each learner. ‘Since 2013, over 4,100 schools have chosen Third Space Learning’s cost-effective one-to-one maths tutoring – giving them more time to focus on whole-class teaching and learning. We’ve used all the online…

Topics covered

  • AI tutors
  • math education
  • personalized learning

Keywords

  • Third Space Learning
  • Scaffolded support
  • Pedagogically sound
  • One-to-one tutoring

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