Everybody Counts Raises £800K Pre-Seed from Fuel Ventures
We've closed our Pre-Seed round. Here's what the funding is for and what comes next for the platform...
The Year 4 Multiplication Gap: Why It Happens and What Actually Fixes It
Most Year 4 teachers see the same pattern every September: students who can't reliably multiply single digits...
Why We Use Item Response Theory Instead of Simple Difficulty Bands
Most adaptive learning apps assign questions as easy, medium, or hard. IRT is more nuanced — and measurably better...
Running Maths Software on School Chromebooks: What Works, What Crashes
Chromebooks are in 68% of UK state primaries. Here's what we learned optimising for them specifically...
Five Fraction Misconceptions in KS2 That Persist Into Secondary School
Fraction understanding is the single strongest predictor of maths achievement at GCSE. Here are the five gaps we see most often...
Designing a Dashboard Teachers Actually Use During Lessons
We interviewed 23 primary teachers before writing a line of dashboard code. The things they said changed almost everything...
What UK Schools Actually Need to Check Before Signing an Ed-Tech DPA
Most schools sign data processing agreements without reading them. Here are the five clauses that actually matter...
Pilot Results: Two Terms With 340 Students Across Four South London Primaries
We ran a controlled pilot through spring and autumn term 2024. Here's the data — unedited, including the bits that didn't go as expected...
Fluency First or Problem-Solving First? What the Evidence Says for KS1
The debate about direct instruction versus enquiry-based learning in primary maths has been running for decades. Here's the clearest evidence we've found...
Maths Tools for SEND Students: What Accessibility Actually Requires
WCAG compliance is a floor, not a ceiling. Here's what we built for dyslexic and visually impaired students — and why it benefits everyone...
Why I Quit Pearson to Build a Maths Platform for Primary Schools
A personal account from Andy Ridgway on what three years as a school governor taught him about the tools that primary teachers actually need...
Keeping a Lesson Library Aligned to the National Curriculum: Our Process
The 2014 National Curriculum statutory guidance is 231 pages. Keeping 400+ lessons mapped to it requires a process, not good intentions...