Personalised learning
Maths for Every Mind
Maths that starts with your child.
Every child learns differently: different abilities, different interests, different things that make them curious.
So we don't believe every child should get exactly the same maths questions.
We use AI to create personalised maths practice based on what your child needs to learn and what they love.
Same maths. A completely different question.
Two children are both learning division.
🐴 Loves animals
A stable has 24 carrots to share equally between 4 horses. How many carrots does each horse get?
🎮 Loves Minecraft
You've collected 24 diamonds and want to divide them equally between 4 chests. How many diamonds go in each chest?
The maths skill is exactly the same. The question just feels different, because it connects with something the child already cares about. That's the idea behind mathsimade.
Personalised in three ways
Their ability
Questions adapt to the child's current level.
Not so easy that they're bored. Not so difficult that they're overwhelmed.
The aim is that productive space where they're challenged, but can still experience success.
Their interests
Football. Unicorns. Minecraft. Dinosaurs. Horses. Space. Trains. Music.
Or something completely unique.
Tell mathsimade what your child loves and we use it as the context for their maths.
Their learning
As your child answers, mathsimade can adapt what comes next.
The aim isn't simply more questions.
It's the right question at the right time.
Why interests matter
Children don't leave their interests behind when they start learning.
For some children, particularly some autistic children, particular interests can be especially important sources of attention, motivation and enjoyment.
Research findingA review of 20 peer-reviewed studies involving 91 autistic children reported positive outcomes in educational attainment and/or social engagement when children's focused interests were incorporated into teaching.
That doesn't mean adding Minecraft, dinosaurs or football to a maths question magically makes a child better at maths. It means there's good reason to explore a simple idea:
When learning connects with something a child genuinely cares about, they may be more motivated to engage with it.
Could this be particularly helpful for children with SEN?
Potentially, and it's an area we're especially interested in exploring.
Children with Special Educational Needs are not one group. Two children with the same diagnosis can have very different abilities, interests and learning preferences. That's one reason personalisation matters.
Research findingRecent research into maths learning among autistic children highlights substantial variation in ability and the importance of individualised approaches.
mathsimade has been designed around exactly that idea. Instead of only asking:
"What maths should a 9-year-old be doing?"
we also want to ask:
"What maths should this child be doing next?"
Special interests can become learning opportunities
A child might be fascinated by…
Why AI makes this possible
Traditional educational software has a practical limit: someone has to write all the questions.
Writing separate versions of thousands of questions for thousands of different interests simply isn't practical.
Generative AI changes that.
If your child's favourite thing is incredibly specific, mathsimade doesn't need a pre-written bank of questions about it. It can create an appropriate question for that child, at that moment.
Ability → Interests → Learning
Personalised learning should mean more than changing the difficulty.
Ability
Meet the child where they are.
Interests
Connect learning with what matters to them.
Learning
Adapt what comes next as they progress.
One child. One learning journey.
What does the research say?
mathsimade itself has not yet been clinically evaluated, and we don't claim that it treats autism, SEN or any other condition.
What we can say is that our approach is informed by educational research, which has explored:
Using autistic children's focused interests in teaching
A review of 20 studies found positive educational and/or social outcomes when children's interests were incorporated into interventions and teaching.
Interest-based motivation
Incorporating preferred interests into academic activities can influence engagement, task initiation and performance for some autistic learners.
Individual differences in mathematics
Research on mathematical ability in autistic learners highlights considerable variation between children, supporting individualised approaches.
Our ambition is to build on these ideas, and then test whether mathsimade's particular approach makes a measurable difference.
Read the research
Review of Educational Research
Teaching children with autism spectrum disorder with restricted interests
Review of 20 peer-reviewed studies involving 91 autistic children.
Read moreAutism / disability education research
Embedding interests in learning environments
How individual interests can support motivation and engagement.
Read moreJournal of Applied Behavior Analysis
Using motivational components in academic tasks
Effects of adding preferred interests to academic work.
Read moreBrain imaging research
Individual interests and reward processing in autism
How the brain responds to a person's own particular interests.
Read moreSystematic review & meta-analysis
Mathematical abilities in autism
Variation in maths ability among autistic learners.
Read moreWe're learning too.
We want to work with parents, teachers and children to understand where personalisation makes the biggest difference. We'd love to explore:
- ?Do children spend longer practising when questions include their interests?
- ?Are they more willing to start a maths activity?
- ?Do they attempt more questions?
- ?Does increased engagement ultimately improve mathematical learning?
That's something we want to investigate properly rather than simply assume.
Your child isn't average.
So why should their maths be?
Give every child their optimum opportunity to learn. Personalised to their ability. Inspired by their interests. Adapted as they learn.
We're inviting a small group of Founding Families to help shape the future of mathsimade.
Become a Founding Family