Mazio Maths

Frequently asked questions

Answers for teachers, school leadership, school authorities and education administration. Each role has its own page with more detail.

For teachers

Using Mazio Maths in your own lessons, without technical effort.

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What does it cost me as a teacher?

Nothing. Mazio Maths is free for teachers. Using it with a class is currently available to schools in Germany; the licence is obtained by the school, not by the individual teacher. If your school is in another country, registration records your interest and we will let you know as soon as Mazio Maths is available there. Information for schools is under For school leadership.

How do I get started?

In three steps. You create an account with your work email address. You create a class, and Mazio Maths generates a personal access code for each child, as printable access cards if you wish. You don’t need to enter names. The children can start once your school has concluded the data protection agreement with us online. This is currently possible for schools in Germany.

Do I need the school leadership’s approval?

For the data processing agreement, yes. Mazio Maths processes pupils’ data; your school, as the controller, concludes the agreement on this with us. We provide the documents. Who at your school decides on long-term use depends on the rules in your country.

Do the children need an account?

No. Each child logs in with their own eight-character access code or their access card. Children do not have email addresses, and no account with contact details is created.

What devices do I need?

Common tablets and laptops with an up-to-date browser. There is nothing to install. There is also an app.

How much preparation does it take?

You choose what to put out for the class. The evaluation builds up while the children work.

What do I see in the dashboard?

Where your class stands in the material, what it is currently finding hard and which errors in thinking keep recurring, based on the units worked on. From this come suggestions with reasons for the whole class. You decide what goes on the board.

Can Mazio Maths be used for diagnostic assessment?

As ongoing, formative assessment, yes. While the children practise, Mazio Maths evaluates every answer using rules. You see for each child and for the class where they stand in the five content areas, and you get a flag when several children make the same error in thinking, for example when bridging ten or with place value. Mazio Maths does not replace a standardised test with norm values.

What does Mazio do when a child gets stuck?

Mazio asks a question about the task and offers answers to tap. He does not give the solution; the child takes the next step on their own. Mazio is labelled as AI for the children.

Does it fit the curriculum?

The content covers the core areas of primary maths found in curricula around the world: numbers and operations, space and shape, patterns and structures, quantities and measuring, data and probability. It is designed for children aged six to ten.

For school leadership

Introducing Mazio Maths at your school. Trials and licences are currently offered to schools in Germany.

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What does a school licence cost?

We prepare an individual quote for your school. Request a quote

How can we pay for it?

Schools in Germany can use, for example, school budgets or funding programmes for digital learning materials. For schools in other countries we do not offer licences yet. If your school is interested, please write to us.

Do we have to put it out to tender?

That depends on the thresholds set by your state or country and by your school authority; your procurement office has the final say. We provide a service specification and a quotation that suit both direct purchase and a formal procedure.

What does our school need technically?

No installation, no servers, no central user management. Hosting, maintenance and updates are handled by us; the platform runs on servers in Germany.

How do we introduce it?

You review the documents and conclude the data protection agreement online. Then two or three teachers start with their classes. The staff report back, and you decide whether to extend its use. Which body decides on long-term use depends on the school law of your state or country.

Which documents do we receive for the review?

Privacy information under Article 13, a template data processing agreement, an overview of the technical and organisational measures, details of storage locations and deletion periods, a guide for filling in your record of processing activities and a template information sheet for parents and staff.

Do we need to ask parents for consent?

Your school decides this on the basis of the school law of your state or country and in consultation with your data protection officer. We provide the information you need for this review and a template information sheet for parents.

What about accessibility?

We follow the EN 301 549 standard and the WCAG web guidelines at level AA, and test against them internally.

Is there evidence of its impact?

A scientific study in Germany measured greater gains in maths skills than in a comparison group, after six weeks and without extra learning time. Results and limitations are openly documented.

For school authorities and media centres

Provision for several schools, without a rollout and without maintaining pupil directories.

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How are licences organised?

Through individual schools, through the school authority or through a media centre. On request as a collective order for several sites with one invoice. You send us the list of schools, and we handle the rest directly with the schools.

What does it cost for several schools?

We prepare a quote with a service specification for your procurement. Request a quote

What funds can be used to pay for it?

In Germany, school authorities use funding programmes, the teaching materials budget or municipal budgets. Outside Germany we do not offer licences yet. If you are considering Mazio Maths for schools in your area, please write to us.

Do we have to go to tender?

That depends on the contract value and on the procurement rules that apply to you. We offer fixed terms and provide a service specification for your procurement file.

What needs to be done technically?

A web application in the browser, plus an app. No software distribution, no local updates, no rollout at schools. Schools join individually, and each one activates its own teachers.

Can Mazio Maths be integrated?

An LTI integration with existing learning platforms is in use.

How extensive is the data protection review?

Because no pupil accounts are created, schools do not have to set up, maintain or delete such records. The document package contains privacy information, the data processing agreement, technical and organisational measures, and details of storage locations and deletion periods.

Where is the data stored?

We process personal data exclusively in the EU, and pupils’ data exclusively in Germany. The language model of the learning assistant only receives the task and the answer, without any identifier, and processes them in EU data centres. Storage locations and deletion periods are listed in the document package.

Can schools try it out first?

Trial access is currently available to schools in Germany. For schools in other countries, please write to us.

For education administration

What matters for administration at state or national level: origin, impact, data protection, integration and piloting.

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Where does Mazio Maths come from?

Developed from mathematics education research and in use in regular lessons at primary schools in Germany. The content is aligned with the German curriculum standards. Teachers control its use, class by class.

What is known about its impact?

A scientific study with a comparison group, conducted in Germany. Children who learned with Mazio Maths made greater gains in maths skills. The gain appeared in both grades and was most marked in the structure-related areas. Results and limitations are openly documented.

How is data protection set up?

No pupil accounts; each child works with their own access code. The diagnostics are rule-based and traceable. The evaluations are intended for the class’s own teacher. We process personal data exclusively in the EU, and pupils’ data exclusively in Germany. No advertising, no disclosure to third parties.

Is this a high-risk system under the AI Act?

The European Commission’s draft guidelines name adaptive learning systems and tutoring systems that give feedback and learning support as examples that are not high-risk. Mazio Maths adapts the difficulty to the child’s previous work and does not assign children to any course or ability level on which a school bases decisions. Only the class’s own teacher sees learning progress. The teacher decides on teaching and support.

How would provision across a whole state or country work?

One contract, one data protection review, one consistent standard for documentation and support. There is no technical rollout at schools, because Mazio Maths runs in the browser.

What procurement routes are there?

A state or national licence, a framework agreement or inclusion in a catalogue of learning materials. Where your administration keeps such a catalogue, we submit the application and supply the documents the procedure requires.

What does a state or national licence cost?

That depends on the number of children and the term. We prepare a quote for provision across a whole state or country. Request a quote

How does a pilot work?

We agree on scope, term and support together. We support an independent evaluation by state institutes or third parties and provide the necessary data within the permitted limits.

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