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What is Materact?

How Materact works, who it's for, and why teachers and students love it

In short, Materact is an AI-powered maths learning platform built specifically to help students succeed in their maths IGCSE and A-level. Materact is all about supercharging student’s independent learning, giving them the tools to succeed even when they don’t have the direct support of a classroom teacher.

But what does this actually mean in practice?

At Materact’s heart is an AI Tutor that automates corrections, provides targeted support, and helps students as they complete exercises. Crucially, the AI is built to promote real learning. Instead of providing direct answers, the AI Tutor guides students to deeper understanding, creating real, measurable improvements in student performance.

But Materact is much more than a maths AI. What makes the Materact’s AI Tutor powerful is the platform into which it is integrated. Most importantly, the platform ensures that independent learning corresponds closely with exam and classroom specifications. This means that the work that students put in translates directly into improvements in their exam scores.

Since maths success at IGCSE and A-level is a joint endeavour between students and teachers, Materact is designed for use by both individual students and schools. Our purpose is to bridge the gap between independent and supported learning.

Read on to find out how Materact can work for you.

How Materact works for Students

Materact helps students to get the grades they deserve by preparing them specifically for the exams they will sit. This is because all of our content is curriculum aligned, meaning questions come from practice exams or are tailored to match your curriculum’s format.

With Materact, you always know that work that you are doing will help you get a better grade. No more feeling stuck. No more wondering whether you are practicing in the right way – Materact guides you through the topics that you are most confused about, allowing you to identify and work through your weakest points.

There are four ways that Materact helps you to get better grades:

  1. Curriculum-aligned questions for practice
  2. Progress tracking: easily monitor your progress and performance with clear insight
  3. Interactive workspace with handwriting interface and line-by-line corrections
  4. AI-tutor: provides real-time hints through socratic questioning
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How Materact works for Teachers

Materact is your all-in-one maths teaching platform which frees you from administrating and marking to focus on what you do best: teaching.

There are four ways that Materact helps you to help your students get better grades:

  1. Easily assign curriculum-aligned homework
  2. Provides actionable insights and alerts: Detailed data at a class and individual level including completion rates, scores, activity and pain points.
  3. Collaborative Student App and Teacher Dashboard: Seamless connection between student and teacher experience
  4. AI assistant: provides automated corrections and instant results according to mark-schemes
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Key features deep dive

1. Curriculum-aligned questions

Materact is designed specifically to help students working through a wide range of secondary mathematics programmes, including A Levels (Pearson Edexcel, AQA , OCR and WJEC), International A Levels (Pearson Edexcel and Cambridge CIE), and IGCSE (Pearson Edexcel). Everyone knows that past-paper practice is how to improve grades – Materact supercharges this.

2. AI marking assistant

Materact’s AI-marking assistant instantly provides feedback and scores on student’s work. Importantly, our marking assistant marks according to exam mark-schemes, allocating marks as a real examiner would do. Unlike other AI marking software, Materact is highly accurate.

3. AI tutor

Materact’s AI tutor works according to the Socratic method. This means that it never directly tells a student an answer, instead guiding students to discover answers on their own, thereby ensuring deep understanding of the concepts underpinning questions. This is highly important in maths, where success is determined not by rote memorisation, but by being able to apply knowledge to different problems.

4. Handwriting recognition

Materact’s interface is powered by seamless handwriting recognition, meaning that students can directly work within Materact. Alternatively, students have the option to upload their handwritten work, which will automatically be transcribed by Materact.

5. Performance and progress analysis

Materact goes beyond marking individual exercises by providing detailed analysis of student performance and progress. Students and teachers can harness Materact’s insights to target weak areas and maximise improvement.

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Supported exam specifications

Here you can see what specifications Materact currently supports.

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FAQs

What are the advantages of Materact over other similar platforms?

Materact surpasses other maths AI platforms in three ways.

  1. Materact is curriculum-aligned
  2. Materact’s AI-tutor is designed to stimulate learning, not cheat it.
  3. Materact’s AI-marking is consistent and works according to mark-schemes.

Can Materact replace a maths tutor?

In many cases Materact could easily replace a tutor, providing tailored support 24/7, wherever the student needs it.

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How accurate is Materact’s marking?

Materact’s marking is 100% consistent with specification mark-schemes, accounting for marks awarded for working out.

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