Rob Wakeling

Founder: BowTieTeacher Limited

Leigh-On-Sea, England, United Kingdom

About

I've been teaching for over 20 years. In that time, I've sat across from hundreds of students who arrived convinced they "are useless at maths" and watched them leave with a grade they were proud of. A few years ago I started thinking about the students I couldn't reach. In a classroom I could help 30 people at a time but I wanted to do more. So I built Bow Tie Maths: a web app that generates I/GCSE practice questions across every topic, adapts to where a student is, and gives them something to work with independently whilst predicting their potential grade at the end of the course. I'm a solo developer on this and I built everything from the ground up before AI could do it all for me! I secured a scholarship for a Stanford University online course in machine learning because I believe that it can help students to identify the gaps in their knowledge and make it easier to find and close them. If you're a teacher, tutor, parent, or student or you're working on edtech and want to compare notes, I'd genuinely love to hear from you!

Experience

  • Founder at BowTieTeacher Limited
    Sep 2024 - Present · 1 yr 11 mos

  • Online Tutor at BowTieTeacher.co.uk
    Aug 2022 - Present · 4 yrs

  • Digital Lead & Teacher of Mathematics at The British School Al Khubairat
    Aug 2016 - Aug 2021 · 5 yrs 1 mo

  • Senior Leader at GEMS Cambridge International School - Abu Dhabi
    Aug 2015 - Aug 2016 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • Assistant Head at Shoeburyness High School
    Sep 2009 - Aug 2015 · 6 yrs