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August 2025: Third Space Learning selected as an Accelerate 2025 Call for Effective Technology garantee
Third Space Learning receives grant from national nonprofit Accelerate to expand access to voice-based AI math tutor, Skye, across schools in the US and undertake one of the first impact studies of high-dosage spoken AI tutoring.
Download the press release here.
August 2024: 2023/24 Impact Reports
Showcasing the positive impact personalised one to one maths tutoring has had on thousands of pupils in hundreds of schools across the UK and the US in the 23/24 school year.
July 2023: 2022/23 Impact Report
Celebrating our 10th year of providing online one to one maths support for schools in the UK.
Download the 22/23 Impact Report here.
May 2023: Deputy Headteacher Shares Tutoring Success
Deputy Headteacher Simrat Mavi shares with the UK Department for Education how much of a positive impact maths tutoring from Third Space Learning has had in her school
May 2023: Call to Effective Action grant from Accelerate
Third Space Learning receives $150,000 innovation grant from national nonprofit Accelerate to make high-impact tutoring sustainable and cost-effective.
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January 2023: Third Space Learning Launches in the US
After 10 years supporting schools in the UK with online one to one maths tutoring, the first US session took place in a school in Baltimore, Maryland, kicking off our expansion beyond the UK and our journey to delivering impact globally.
More about our work with schools in the US.
June 2022: Levelling Up Tutoring
In partnership with Third Space Learning, Action Tutoring and White Rose Maths, The Centre for Education and Youth explore how tutoring can best contribute to closing England’s attainment gap in schools by 2030.
April 2022: Third Space Learning welcomes a new Board Director
On his appointment as a non-executive director, James Wharton said: “Third Space Learning is playing a really important role in closing the attainment gap by providing affordable tutoring to children in state schools. I’m looking forward to working with Third Space Learning to help them to reach and support as many children as possible.”
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September 2021: The Role of Third Space Learning in Closing the Maths Attainment Gap
The Centre for Education and Youth explore the current need for maths tutoring in the UK and how Third Space Learning can help.
July 2021: How Global Tutoring Models Can Help to Support Pupils in the UK
The Institute of Development Studies discuss the feasibility of Third Space Learning to deliver tutoring at a scale that can narrow the widening attainment gap in the UK at a price that schools can afford.
March 2021: Tutor Recruitment and Training
A note from Founder and CEO Tom Hooper about the recruitment and training of our tutors.
November 2020: Third Space Learning raises £4.3m Series-A extension and announces a commercial partnership with NetDragon to accelerate plans for international expansion.
These developments will enable Third Space Learning to support even more primary teachers in the UK, and support an expansion to both secondary and international markets, notably in the US.
View the full press release here.
November 2020: Third Space Learning has been selected by the National Tutoring Programme to provide essential maths support to disadvantaged children across England.
State-maintained primary and secondary schools can now access heavily subsidised maths tutoring support from Third Space Learning through the National Tutoring Programme, funded as part of the government’s £350 million allocations to provide one to one and small group tutoring for schools.
Our story
Third Space Learning is the UK’s largest online maths tutoring company for schools.
Founded in 2013, we’re a team of teachers, curriculum and product designers, social entrepreneurs, and education experts who are committed to closing the maths attainment gap through affordable, effective, and scalable online one-to-one teaching.
Over the last 10+ years we’ve helped improve educational outcomes for over 170,000 pupils across more than 4,000 schools in the UK, and more recently the US. The majority of the pupils we’ve worked with have been eligible for free school meals.
Today, our one-to-one maths tutoring programmes are taught by our specially-trained voice-based AI maths tutor Skye, who talks pupils through teacher-created maths lessons as they listen and responds. Lessons address each pupil’s individual knowledge gaps, resulting in a highly effective and completely personalised intervention, designed by teachers for teachers.
Our mission
We believe the best way to boost maths skills and build confidence is to give each child the opportunity to learn at their own pace in a one to one environment.
However, traditional one-to-one tutoring is expensive and difficult for schools to organise.
Our mission is for every student to be able to access great quality online tuition to help them succeed in, and love, their learning.
By taking maths tutoring online and creating a truly engaging, interactive and responsive AI maths tutor, we’re making this kind of highly valuable one-to-one support more accessible for schools than ever before.
Our impact
Since 2013, over 2.1 million online one-to-one maths tutoring lessons have taken place in the Third Space Learning virtual classroom.
In an independent trial with Rising Stars, pupils receiving one to one support from Third Space Learning made 7 months’ progress in 14 weeks.
As well as this impact on progress and attainment, Third Space Learning also helps to transform pupil mindset and build confidence with maths. Of pupils who report low confidence at the start, 70% say this has improved by the end of the lesson. Pupils who self-identify as showing low effort and low enjoyment with maths show a significant improvement in these areas by the end of the programme.
Our community
4,000+ schools across the UK and the US have used our online one to one maths support
170,000+ pupils have received personalised one to one maths tuition from our tutors
Over 2,100,000 online lessons have been taught
200,000+ teachers and senior leaders have downloaded over 2 million of our free maths resources and read over 9 million Third Learning blogs to help raise maths attainment in their schools
Our insights
The data we have collected over the past 10 years has allowed us a unique insight into the understanding, teaching, and lifetime use of school maths.
Girls and Mathematics A report into perceptions and confidence in mathematics skills among male and female students in school and in later life.
Mathematics and Your Career The impact on your career and salary of taking a mathematics based job.
What Mathematics Do We Need Looks at the relevance and relative value of the different maths topics we learn at school.