Louise Boylan

Thank you very much for having me, David.

You don't study maths, David, you practice maths.

OK, I say to my students, it's like learning the piano.

You just have to practice, practice, practice, practice, and you just do as many questions as you can.

a variety of questions.

Ideally, make sure you've got solutions.

So you'll have students at this stage of the year and they've done every question in their textbook, every exam paper.

They'd be asking their teachers for more mock papers and they just need to keep practising.

But now they can use AI, which, you know, the big bad AI.

They can use AI.

I know, I know, how dare I?

But it's a really good use for this.

So they can put in a couple of old, say, trigonometry questions and ask whatever AI tool they're using, please make similar questions with different numbers and the solutions.

So there's literally, they will literally never run out of maths questions to practice.

They can also go back and practice questions they've done before.

You know, I say to them, it's not an Agatha Christie, it's not a murder mystery.

If you know the answer is 10, it doesn't matter.

Can you do it again?

Can you get the same answer without checking back your notes?

There are the extra points there.