Kids & Family

In UK maths classrooms, an AI tutor kept pace with expert human tutors

Google and the education company Eedi ran a randomised trial with 1,179 students in UK maths classrooms. On the quick checks after each session, students helped by the AI tutor did about as well as students helped by expert humans.

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One-to-one tutoring is one of the most effective ways to help a struggling kid, and one of the most expensive. A patient tutor that's available at 9pm on a Sunday could bring that kind of help to far more families.

Honest results are their own kind of good news.

SourceGoogle LearnLM team and Eedi, research paper

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