MATH - Third Space Learning

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Primary school provides a child's foundation for numeracy, however UK primary schools facea severe shortage of teachers with maths related degrees, currently less than 2%. Poornumeracy costs UK economy £20bn/yr and people with poor numeracy are twice as likely tobe unemployed. It disproportionately impacts underprivileged children, with UK childrenfrom poor backgrounds twice as likely to fail academically (National Numeracy, 2015).UK Govt spends £2.8bn on Pupil Premium (DfE, 2014), intended to supplement mathseducation for disadvantaged pupils. Schools receive £935 per eligible secondary-aged pupiland £1,300 for primary (Demos, 2014). However, PP is failing to address the issue as 48% oflocal authorities saw attainment gaps increase in 2014 (Demos, 2014).1-to-1 tuition has a positive impact on learning, particularly for primary school maths as itenables learners to catch up (Educational Endowment Fund, 2015). Schools can identifypupils requiring support and access PP funding, however schools lack the system toeffectively implement 1-to-1 tuition at scale.TSL helps to solve the issues by recruiting maths graduates from around the world to provide1-to-1 maths tuition in UK schools. TSL tutors work from offices in India and Sri Lanka,connecting to children in English schools through online, virtual classrooms. TSL is alreadyused in 186 schools across UK and conducts over 2K sessions a week.TSL assessors currently manually review and grade 5% of sessions each week to ensurequality, which is a costly, inefficient and inconsistent process, that restricts TSL’s scalability.The MATH project will develop an automated session grading algorithm, to monitor teachingquality and determine its correlation to learning outcomes. This quality assurance system willensure high quality teaching at scale, leading to better outcomes. MATH will allow TSL toautomatically analyse tutor performance, identify best practice and develop excellence atscale.