5 Reasons Thousands Of Schools Choose Third Space Learning As Their Tutoring Provider

We believe in the strength of our team, the strength of our model, and the strength of our curriculum. We are always striving to better understand our customers.

Through our conversations with hundreds of educational leaders in our community, we have learned more about what teachers want, taken on feedback, and continue to refine a program that will seamlessly fit into your school’s intervention strategy.

So, why should you choose Third Space Learning as your trusted tutoring provider for math? Let’s dive straight in…

1. Rapport with math at its core: Skye builds positive relationships with students where learning is at the forefront

As teachers, you know that building rapport with students is more than just a ‘nice thing’ to do. It enhances student learning and creates a positive learning environment where learners are motivated, engaged, and supported.

There’s a balance between building rapport and chatting. Here at Third Space Learning, we want students to feel supported while also covering math content from the start to make the most of their dedicated tutoring time.

Students learn with AI tutor Skye every session. Skye maintains consistency without being tired, stressed, or unavailable.

Students communicate with Skye through spoken conversation via a headset and a shared screen. Skye has been trained to use a range of strategies to build that all-important rapport with students, such as:

• Encouraging tone and language that celebrates progress and effort
• Personalized responses that acknowledge individual achievements
• Motivational prompts that keep students engaged without wasting learning time
• Adaptive communication that adjusts to each student’s confidence level and learning style

It is excellent. Students were very engaged and they liked it. I believe the feeling of liking it comes from feeling successful. I listened in on some of the sessions; they were excellent and the students’ conceptual understanding was improving. 

Schipper Clawson, Frontier Middle School, Utah

We recently made a number of improvements to our math tutoring programs. This includes new high-quality gaming headsets (which have been a big hit with students!) that we provide for free to schools.

2. Personalized learning

At Third Space Learning we know that no one knows your students like a teacher does, so schools decide which standards each student needs additional practice with each week. 

Each lesson is designed to close learning gaps and address misconceptions, and Skye adapts them to fit each student.

After each session, teachers receive a detailed report for every student, showing topics covered, skills practiced, and progress made. Reports are available on demand and can be easily printed to help inform your class instruction, assessment data or keep parents up-to-date.

3. Content quality assurance: lessons are centrally created and constantly updated by US mastery experts

Our curriculum is developed by math teachers and pedagogy experts. All of our dedicated curriculum team are former teachers with decades of experience in the classroom and current knowledge of evidence-based teaching methods.

They are well-versed in the latest pedagogy and are constantly monitoring and improving our program to ensure it:

• Follows best practice
• Fits with the school environment
• Aligns to different states’ standards
• Allows teachers to easily reinforce teaching strategies used in the classroom
• Uses a wide range of models and images to promote conceptual understanding
• Accelerates students’ progress.

For example, our lessons follow a distinct structure that is grounded in research and promotes articulation, reasoning, and discussion. They are broken down into 4 stages, encouraging students to move from guided to independent practice. The curriculum is broken down into smaller steps, with scaffolded slides, allowing AI tutor Skye to pitch learning at the appropriate level for the individual students and their gaps.

We are proud of our high-quality lessons and coherent programs that help thousands of students understand concepts, improve their mathematical thinking and experience a sense of accomplishment

Candida crawford, Third Space Learning Head of Academic Standards and former school teacher

4. Tutor toolkit embedded in pedagogy: AI tutor Skye receives ongoing training and prompting

Equally important to the lesson content and design is its delivery.

It’s for this reason that Skye has been developed by Third Space Learning’s team of current and former math specialists and former teachers with a genuine passion for math education. Rather than relying on automated content generation, Skye uses only lessons created by our expert curriculum team, ensuring every interaction meets the highest teaching standards.

While other AI tutoring providers generate content on-the-fly or use basic question-and-answer formats, effective AI tutoring requires extensive training built on real classroom experience. 

Skye has been trained using insights from over 2 million one-to-one tutoring sessions delivered to more than 170,000 pupils across 4,000 UK schools. This training is designed by our curriculum team and centred around state standards, incorporating proven pedagogical approaches like scaffolding, misconception identification, and adaptive feedback.

Extensive feedback from teachers and students shapes how Skye responds to different misconceptions, adapts to individual learning needs, and maintains engagement throughout sessions. Unlike static AI systems, Skye continues to improve through ongoing analysis of session data and regular updates from our academic team. Skye’s responses and teaching strategies are constantly evolving based on classroom evidence and educational best practice. This continuous improvement model means schools benefit from an AI tutor that gets more effective over time, applying the latest insights from maths education research to every session.

Learning objectives are authored and tailored around research-informed pedagogy and these are then adapted for delivery by Skye. We take our knowledge around common misconceptions and best teaching strategies, gained from our own past classroom experience and from data from our human tutoring sessions, and embed them within Skye’s delivery.

Terri Higgins, Training and Development Coordinator and former school teacher

5. In-school specialists: we understand the challenges schools face and how best to support teachers

Over the last 9 years, we’ve supported over 4,000 schools and 170,000+ students across schools. Our experience in schools and understanding of the challenges they face mean we design tutoring for the realities of school life. 

Time is a precious resource for teachers.

Our Product Team is constantly thinking about how to keep improving the design and structure of our teacher onboarding journey to make set-up even quicker and efficient.

Our Customer Support Team is also on hand to support you from the moment you sign up to sessions. Each school has a dedicated Account Manager who will:

• Guide schools through the onboarding process;
• Troubleshoot any issues that may arise;
• Be on hand to ensure the smooth running of your tutoring sessions.

We know that flexibility is key for schools, and we have designed our tutoring to account for this. Schools choose when and how often they would like the tutoring to take place; time slots are available before, during and after school. They can also choose their preferred session duration.

In addition to our one-on-one tutoring, we provide support to our community of over 100,000 teachers and school leaders through free, high-quality math resources. This helps teachers to raise math achievement for all students in your school, not just those receiving the tutoring. Everybody wins!

The best solution for your school

There’s no one-size-fits-all ‘best’ tutoring option, but we build flexibility with low or high-dosage tutoring, curriculum, and personalization into our programs; from logistics and setup, to the individualized learning journeys our students receive.

This is why hundreds of schools choose to work with Third Space Learning as their math tutoring partner, year after year.

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Do you have students who need extra support in math?

Skye—our AI math tutor built by experienced teachers—provides students with personalized one-on-one, spoken instruction that helps them master concepts, close skill gaps, and gain confidence.

Since 2013, we’ve delivered over 2 million hours of math lessons to more than 170,000 students, guiding them toward higher math achievement.

Discover how our AI math tutoring can boost student success, or see how our math programs can support your school’s goals:
– 3rd grade tutoring
– 4th grade tutoring
– 5th grade tutoring
– 6th grade tutoring
– 7th grade tutoring
– 8th grade tutoring

The content in this article was originally written by UK Content Editor Meriel Willatt and has since been revised and adapted for US schools by math curriculum specialist and former elementary math teacher Christi Kulesza.