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A huge Spread a Smile thank you to everyone at XTX Markets for their support, donating 100s of gifts and giving up their time to pack sweet bags to go into our Smile Hampers. 🙏 It was a pleasure to join the team in their King’s Cross office recently and we are so grateful to everyone who took part, helping us spread smiles and festive joy to seriously ill children and their siblings in time for Christmas. 🎄 #SpreadaSmile #SmileHampers

What an incredible year it has been for Martingale Foundation! Reflecting on 2024, we’re filled with gratitude and pride for the achievements made over the last year. Firstly, a huge congratulations to the Martingale Scholars who have worked hard to achieve incredible results and continue to go from strength to strength. Of course, this would not be possible without the collective efforts of our partner universities, ambassadors, and supporters. Together, we’ve taken big strides toward ensuring that postgraduate education is open to all with the talent and drive. Some highlights from the year include: ⭐ Recruited the third cohort of Mathematics Scholars, this year welcoming 32 Masters Scholars-in-principle and 47 PhD Navigator participants, thanks to the generosity of our founding donor, XTX Markets. Best of luck to all our successful candidates with their upcoming university applications! ⭐ Launched a new partnership with Google DeepMind to fund 12 Google DeepMind AI Masters Scholarships, expanding our support to more talented people. This also enabled the growth of our university partnerships, welcoming Queen Mary University of London and University of Birmingham on board. This growth meant a busy recruitment period with over 134 Scholarship interviews across Bristol, Edinburgh, and London, in just three weeks! ⭐ The first two cohorts of Martingale Scholars continue to inspire us. The inaugural cohort has now progressed to PhD as they explore topics from number theory to quantum computing, while the second cohort launches into their Masters across eight of our partner universities. ⭐ Our support goes beyond Scholarships, with over ten events in the last year, including our annual Welcome Dinner and a Scholar networking event on AI research at Faculty. In the spring, we hosted a lecture on data with statistician Prof. Emma McCoy of The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), in partnership with The Royal Institution. Before wrapping up the academic year with our inaugural Solve for X retreat with Newton Gateway and Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, generously hosted at St John's College, Cambridge. ⭐ Held our first policy roundtable to discuss access and success in research-intensive universities, launching a report with Public First and coverage in *Research Professional. Want to see more? Check out our first Impact Report too. ⭐ We also welcomed five advocates onto our Student Advisory Board, who help advise on our future direction. In the autumn, we moved into a wonderful new office at EdCity, working alongside our incubator charity and colleagues at Purposeful Ventures. As we look ahead, we’re more inspired than ever to continue this work. This includes our campaign to raise funding for expansion into Computer Science, Engineering, and Healthcare to enable us to support more talented Scholars. Thank you to our funders and to our community for being part of this journey. We look forward to 2025! 🎉

🤩 Project Numina is thrilled to announce a €3m research grant from XTX Markets to support the development of open-source AI tools for mathematicians and general progress in AI reasoning! 👇 More here https://lnkd.in/e53MrQwu Thank you Alexander Gerko and team! Cc Jia Li Stanislas Polu Lewis Tunstall Léo Dreyfus-Schmidt Marina Vinyes Ph.D Mantas Bakšys Alain Durmus Roman Soletskyi Guillaume Lample Ed Beeching

Congratulations to Md Boktiar Mahbub Murad for winning the Artificial Intelligence Mathematical Olympiad’s second Early Sharing Prize, worth $20k. His public notebook was the first to solve 20 out of 50 of the competition's challenging math problems, which are set at the National Olympiad difficulty level. We look forward to seeing improved models submitted as the competition progresses, leveraging this publicly shared dataset. We hope this will drive further research advancements and serve as a catalyst for even higher leaderboard scores. Good luck to all entrants! https://lnkd.in/gaPuJhr8

XTX Markets and Renaissance Philanthropy have partnered to launch the AI for Math Fund. The fund will commit over $9 million to support the development of new AI tools, which will serve as long-term building blocks to advance mathematics. Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/eQJ7p8up

The Observatory for Mathematical Education has today published its introductory report: https://lnkd.in/d-QPFft8. The report sets out the Observatory’s design concepts together with preliminary plans for the coming years, including details of our progress on setting up the largest ever cohort studies of mathematical education in England. The Observatory team would like to thank all those who have supported us through this foundational year.  

We are excited to introduce 'Scoping the "Maths Corps" in England', the second in our new series of reports exploring how to address systemic challenges and create opportunities to help more students excel in maths.  Authored by Adam Schaffer, and created in partnership with XTX Markets, this report develops the idea of a ‘Maths Corps’ – the diverse network of people who have the potential to deliver or support maths education activities for young people. Key insights from this report include:  1️⃣ There is a Maths Corps of c. 600,000 potential educators in England, which is distributed nationally but with hotspots in London and the South East. 2️⃣Only about 20% of this Maths Corps is currently engaged in maths education, but there is potential to grow this significantly. 3️⃣ The Maths Corps comprises six main groups, with high priorities for engagement including university students, current and former teachers, and private tutors.  This report is intended to spark questions and conversations about deploying the Maths Corps to give young people better access to maths excellence pathways. Read the full report via the link in the comments 👇 Stay tuned for more from our series as we continue to explore solutions for advancing maths education in England.

Last week, we welcomed 70 cycling enthusiasts for our annual Velodrome Challenge at the iconic Lee Valley Velopark.   So far, the event has raised an incredible £280,000, and counting, to help build the new Children’s Cancer Centre at Great Ormond Street Hospital.   A huge thank you to our sponsor XTX Markets and Freshfields and our event partners Santini and Precision Fuel & Hydration for making this unforgettable day happen.

We are excited to announce the launch of our first report on Exploring AI and EdTech in Maths Teaching 🎉 This report, authored by David Monis-Weston, is the result of over 100 interviews with teachers, maths specialists, technologists, researchers, and policymakers. Here are 5 key takeaways: 1️⃣ There is a strong case for EdTech that empowers maths teachers to teach whole classes – not just personalised learning. However, we need to address the issue of tech distracting or wasting time, and the challenges of school commissioning, deployment and maintenance of the infrastructure to make it work. 2️⃣ Generative AI shows promise in maths teaching, but it is still unclear where it can outperform current teaching methods in terms of reliability and accuracy, while being pedagogically sound. 3️⃣ To maximise EdTech’s impact in maths teaching, we need to better align technology, platforms, curricula, pedagogical guidance and teacher development. 4️⃣ More experimentation is needed to see how AI can help teachers make better use of their time and focus on what matters, including addressing workload issues and improving professional development. 5️⃣ Schools and teachers need better tools to choose effective EdTech, with clearer definitions of quality, reliability, learning science and impact and opportunity costs, and rapid evaluations that provide timely insights into the emerging technology. A big thank you to our partner, XTX Markets, for financially supporting this important work. We are excited to be coming together to explore how AI and EdTech can drive impactful change in maths education. Read the full report through the link in the comments 👇 This report is just the beginning. We are now diving deeper into the research to address the challenges we have uncovered. Stay tuned for more Purposeful Ventures reports in the maths space over the coming weeks.