What you tried.
What it did.
Bloomate keeps the record of what moves one student forward, session by session — so progress is something you can show a parent, rather than something you have to claim.
Fractions did not land today. Movement break first, then halves with the counters — much better second half.
What we tried
- Movement break before startingworked
- Counters for halvespartly worked
- Reading the question aloud twiceno change today
It does not teach. You do.
The first question tutors ask us is whether this replaces them. It does not, and the product is built to make that impossible.
Bloomate reads what you logged and proposes something you might try next. You decide whether it is right for the student in front of you. Nothing it generates reaches a parent or a child until you have read it and can change or discard it — and it is labelled as a suggestion wherever it appears, because that is what it is.
Students have no account and no way to type anything into it. The only person entering anything is you.
Built where the difference is largest
We design for neurodivergent students and students with SEN first, and for everyone else second. That order is deliberate. A pre-registered trial of personalised instruction by de Barros, Ganimian and Muralidharan (2023) found no average effect across 3,331 students — and +0.22 standard deviations for those who started with the lowest scores. The same effort does most of its work in one place.
Hong Kong first, one-to-one tutors, ages six to fifteen.
Writing
- The word we will not write
A student arrives having already been described in terms of what they lack, hundreds of times, in writing. We decided our software would not add to the pile.
- A null result worth reading twice
A pre-registered trial of personalised instruction found no average effect. Split the same data by where students started, and something else appears.
- What you hand the parent
Most tutoring produces no artefact. The lesson happens, the hour ends, and what changed exists only in the tutor's memory.