This Interview Is An Excerpt From ‘How We Address The Digital Divide In Education’ Hosted By Sue Keogh.

In this final episode of series two, our main focus is learning and how we address the digital divide in education, which has grown ever wider during the recent disruption to nurseries, schools and colleges.

Joining me is Rob Percival, founder of startup Blutick, a platform to help 11 to 16 year olds all over the world, learn maths in a whole new way.

Rob, Give Me A Quick Snapshot Of Blutick, It Says On Your Website, It’s Made By Teachers And Powered By AI, But What Does It Actually Do?

Blutick was built in conjunction with The Perse school here in Cambridge. We’ve worked with teachers from day one in the development of the product.

I was a teacher for 10 years, the thing that I missed in online platforms at that time was the ability to give students help and support within the platform while they were working on their maths.

I love my students to work line by line through problems showing all of their working, some students don’t like to do that, however, it’s a very good thing mathematically.

I wanted to have an app that allowed them to do that, and then gave them helpful support when they made mistakes while they were working through those problems, that’s essentially what Blutick does.