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AI Literacy5 min read

AI literacy isn't a ban or a free-for-all. It's a skill.

Schools are moving past the access debate. The interesting work now is teaching students to see where a chatbot is wrong — and knowing when not to use it at all.

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Educators5 min read

Most teacher AI training is teaching the wrong thing.

More educators are getting AI professional development than ever. Too much of it stops at faster emails and lesson plans, and never reaches the classroom.

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Game-Based Learning4 min read

The game is not the lesson. The debrief is.

New research on game-based learning and emotional intelligence keeps landing on the same finding: the teacher in the room matters more than the game on the screen.

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Policy5 min read

What UK classrooms are actually doing with AI this year.

Guidance has arrived, adoption is real, and the biggest worry has shifted from cheating to data. A field guide for school leaders and parents.

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Subject Learning5 min read

GCSE computer science: what actually trips students up.

It isn't the syntax. After enough hours of 1:1 coding support, the same three gaps show up again and again — and none of them are about code.

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Subject Learning4 min read

1:1 or small group? How to choose for the learner in front of you.

Both work. They work for different reasons, and picking the wrong one is the most common mistake families make when they arrange extra support.

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AI Literacy4 min read

Teaching students to prompt is teaching them to think.

A good prompt is a well-formed question. Treat prompting as a writing skill, not a trick, and the AI lesson turns into a thinking lesson.

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Policy4 min read

Seven questions to ask before an AI tool meets a child.

The demo will be good. Ask these before you sign anything — and hold the answers against the DfE's safety expectations.

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Game-Based Learning4 min read

Why every game session starts with "how are we feeling?"

The check-in looks like a warm-up. It's the part that makes the rest of the hour work — and it's where the social-emotional learning actually starts.

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Creative Studio5 min read

Explainer videos students actually watch to the end.

Most educational video is too long, too flat and made for the teacher rather than the learner. Six rules we use in the studio, and the research behind them.

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Educators5 min read

Designing assignments AI can't finish for you.

Detection tools are a losing game. Redesign the task instead — five patterns that keep the thinking with the student, and still let them use the tools.

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An educator leading a classroom session with students working on tablets
Policy5 min read

AI from Class 3: what India's curriculum change asks of schools.

From the 2026–27 session, AI and computational thinking enter Indian classrooms as a foundational skill. Here's what that means in practice for schools and parents.

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Policy4 min read

Phone bans work slowly. Year one is the hard year.

The biggest study yet on school phone bans found no quick win — and real benefits by year three. What that means if your school is about to try one.

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Subject Learning4 min read

The small-group maths trick: explain it to someone else.

The fastest way to find out whether a student understands a method is to make them teach it. Here's how we build that into every small-group session.

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Creative Studio4 min read

Educators on LinkedIn: a plain playbook.

You don't need to become a content creator. You need a clear point of view, one honest post a week, and the discipline to stop before it gets performative.

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Careers5 min read

Prodigy asked us: how do you write an SOP, ace the interview and fix your resume?

From a podcast with Prodigy Finance on cracking international admissions — the statement of purpose, the interview, and the one-page resume that gets past the filters.

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Math Stories4 min read

When math dances with music: a jukebox experiment.

Fibonacci in Carnatic rhythms, the 2–4 beat of a rock anthem, and fifteen songs rebuilt in Chrome Music Lab to hear the numbers underneath them.

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Activities3 min read

Origami sunglasses, ft. Rajinikanth.

A paper-folding session that looked like fun and quietly practised sequencing, spatial reasoning, fine motor control and patience — plus a step-by-step video to do it at home.

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Math Stories4 min read

1729: the number connecting Futurama and Srinivasa Ramanujan.

A taxi, a hospital visit and a "dull" number that turned out to be the smallest expressible as the sum of two cubes in two ways — and then kept turning up in a cartoon set a thousand years from now.

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Math Stories3 min read

What makes 73 the Chuck Norris of numbers?

Sheldon Cooper's favourite number, the conjecture named after him, and the 2019 proof that 73 really is the only prime with its peculiar set of properties.

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Activities2 min read

Math, movies and Battleships: a graphical adventure.

Coordinate geometry taught with the classic Battleship game and a scene from Tom Hanks' Greyhound — the plotting practice hides inside the play.

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Math Stories3 min read

Football: why the ball has 20 hexagons and 12 pentagons.

Written an hour before a World Cup kicked off — the geometry of the 32-panel ball, why it flies straighter, and what changed when panels stopped being stitched.

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Math Stories3 min read

The four colour theorem: why every map needs only four crayons.

A schoolboy's question in 1852, a century of failed proofs, and the first major theorem settled by a computer that no human could fully check by hand.

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Math Stories3 min read

God's number: solving every one of 43 quintillion Rubik's Cube positions.

Why the shortest possible solution is called God's algorithm, how 35 CPU-years of Google's idle time settled it, and why humans still need forty-plus moves.

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Math Stories3 min read

The butterfly effect: what chaos theory actually says.

A butterfly in Brazil, a tornado in Texas — the metaphor, the maths of sensitive dependence on initial conditions, and why weather forecasts run out.

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Math Stories4 min read

A Mathematician's Lament: the book that says we're teaching the wrong subject.

Paul Lockhart's argument that mathematics is an art — and that school maths has the facts and formulas but almost none of the mathematics.

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Math Stories4 min read

Moneyball: how a third of the Yankees' budget bought a 20-game streak.

The Oakland Athletics replaced batting averages with on-base and slugging percentages, and recruited the players everyone else was undervaluing.

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Math Stories3 min read

Wordle: what the letter statistics say about your first guess.

Five letters, six guesses. Over 15% of answers start with S, vowels dominate the middle, and the words almost never end in S.

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Math Stories3 min read

Game of Thrones: maths picks the protagonist.

Two mathematicians turned A Storm of Swords into a network of 107 characters and 353 links — and the answer wasn't Jon Snow.

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Math Stories3 min read

Enigma: the 159 quintillion reasons it was thought unbreakable.

Rotors, starting positions and a plugboard with ten wires — the arithmetic behind the cipher machine at the heart of The Imitation Game.

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Math Stories3 min read

Tic-tac-toe: 362,880 ways to fill a grid, and only 23 boards that matter.

The simplest game on paper, counted properly — factorials, powers, combinations, and the symmetries that collapse 126 boards into 23.

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Math Stories3 min read

Let's Make a Deal: why you should always switch doors.

Three doors, one prize, a host who knows where it is. Most people stay. Pigeons learn to switch. The maths says the pigeons are right.

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Math Stories5 min read

Homer's last theorem: the Simpsons equation that almost breaks Fermat.

A blackboard in a 1998 episode carries an equation that seems to defy a theorem it took 358 years to prove. Grab a calculator with more than eight digits.

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