IGCSE maths tutor: Does your child understand the maths, or just follow the steps?

On the free plan, up to 30 minutes a day for each child. When the time is used up, the session ends. You can't set a shorter limit in Epivo yourself, though Android's Family Link can limit the phone as a whole. Paid plans add more time, and you only pay if you choose one: nothing can be bought inside the app.

Create your free parent account at app.epivo.ai and add your child. Your parent account then shows a code: scan it with your child's Android phone, and it installs Epivo from Google Play if needed and connects the app to your account. Epivo runs on Android phones today; the iPhone app is on its way.

Before written lesson material reaches your child, an AI checks its key facts against independent published sources, and a second AI re-checks anything flagged. The tutor is instructed to teach from that material and to say when unsure: an instruction, not a guarantee. And you can check for yourself: your child can tap Sources in the lesson menu and pick a session to see what it drew on, including links to the original sources, and in your parent account you can read each topic's written lesson, where there is one, and its sources.

ChatGPT answers what your child asks. The tutor leads the way: a planned route through the course, one question at a time, picking up where they left off. Your child does the thinking, and once their app is connected to your account, you can see what they covered.

It depends on your child's age and the country we record for them, which stays the same even if they travel or move. The law sets an age below which a parent must agree: 13 in the US, the UK and Sweden, 16 in Germany and Ireland, for example. If we can't tell which country that is, we use 16. If you add your child in your parent account with their date of birth, you give consent there for any child under 16, because we don't know their country yet. If your child tells the tutor an age below that age, the tutor won't teach until you approve, from an emailed link or by scanning a code shown in the app.

Once your child's app is connected to your parent account, you can see which topics they've started, which they've shown they understand and which need a review. You can see each session's topic, date and length, and read the conversation itself. You choose their courses and their tutor there too. All of this stops when your child turns 18: from then on, their learning is their own.

Your child talks only with AI characters, their tutor and a storyteller, and the app says "AI tutor" beside the tutor's name. There are no other people to chat with and no ads. The tutor is instructed to stay on the lesson, refuse harmful requests and keep the conversation suited to your child's age. If your child seems upset, the tutor is instructed to answer kindly and suggest talking to a trusted adult, and where we know their country, the tutor may give them a children's helpline number. If anything the tutor says worries you, tap Report issue in the app and it comes to us. We don't use your child's conversations to train AI models, and their voice isn't stored.

This is Epivo's own International curriculum. It isn't a Cambridge course, Cambridge doesn't endorse it, and it doesn't promise to cover the IGCSE syllabus or prepare your child for the exam. Its Mathematics courses for grades 9 and 10 are for the same ages as most IGCSE students, 14 to 16, and cover many of the topics IGCSE students meet, such as square roots, quadratic equations, standard form, and number patterns. It is a learning aid, not an official qualification.

The grade they tell the tutor. Maths starts at that grade, alongside the grade's other subjects, and you can choose which courses they take from your parent account. In the British system, Year 10 is about Grade 9 and Year 11 about Grade 10.