Professor Pi
Won't hand your child the answer — gives them the way to find it.
Any chatbot will give your child the answer and teach them nothing. Pi gives one well-aimed nudge instead — so the penny drops, and it stays dropped.
Named for π — the number hiding in every circle, that runs on forever and never repeats. A tiny symbol holding endless depth: exactly how Pi sees maths.
How Prof Pi teaches.
Most tutors would just show the steps. Watch Prof Pi refuse — and make the answer click instead.
If 3(x + 4) = 21, what's x — and can you tell me without solving the equation step-by-step first?
wait — so x + 4 = 7? then x = 3.
Exactly that. You divided both sides by 3 in your head. That's the move — not the answer.
No, it won't do your homework.
Yes, it'll actually help.
If you're the one who'll actually use Prof Pi — here's the deal:
- Ask the dumb questionThere isn't one. No sighing, no judging, no "weren't you listening?"
- Get it wrong, loudlyWrong is just a clue. Try as many times as you need — nobody's counting.
- Your pace, your callRace ahead or take it slow. There's no class to keep up with.
- Nobody's watchingNo marks, no report home. Just you and the problem.
The KS3 mathematics map — not a year-by-year checklist.
KS3 mathematics isn't a list ticked off term by term. It's one connected landscape — 6 strands that feed each other. Prof Pi treats all three years as a whole, and lets your child roam it by curiosity: circling back, leaping ahead, following whatever grips them.
- Number
- Place value & rounding
- Fractions, decimals & percentages
- Negative numbers
- Factors, multiples & primes
- Powers, roots & indices
- Standard form
- Algebra
- Expressions & simplifying
- Equations & inequalities
- Formulae & substitution
- Sequences & nth term
- Straight-line graphs
- Simultaneous equations
- Ratio & proportion
- Ratio & sharing
- Direct & inverse proportion
- Percentage change
- Scale & maps
- Compound units (speed, density)
- Geometry & measures
- Angles & polygons
- Area, perimeter & volume
- Pythagoras' theorem
- Transformations
- Constructions & bearings
- Circles
- Probability
- The probability scale
- Theoretical vs experimental
- Sample-space diagrams
- Venn diagrams & sets
- Statistics
- Averages & range
- Tables, bar & pie charts
- Scatter graphs & correlation
- Comparing data sets
Prof Pi teaches the links between these strands — not six separate boxes to tick. Every strand the national curriculum requires, mapped as one whole; most parents have never seen it laid out like this. (Want it pinned to one school's exact plan instead? That's aitutors for Schools.)
Ideas don't live in one subject.
Prof Pi points out the links most tutors miss:
That's the secret most children miss: maths isn't one more subject to get through — it's the language the others are written in. Pi makes that visible.
Prof Pi is part of one faculty.
Not eight separate chatbots — one team that shares what it learns about your child, with the Mentor checking how they're really doing before any lesson begins.
Energy-aware — on a Red day, the answer is rest. We watch wellbeing; we're not a mental-health service. Any sign of distress → Childline 0800 1111.
Adapts to your child.
However your child learns best — chatty or quiet, quick or careful, into football or fan-fiction — Prof Pi meets them there, and still won't do the work for them.
Meet Professor Pi — and the whole faculty.
One subscription unlocks the whole faculty — every subject, one £14/month founding price, locked for your child's academic life.