About this site

Learning AI is an occasional build journal by Richard Linnington, a secondary maths teacher and the creator of maths tutor portal esheets.io

I started this site in February 2026 to document what happened when I began using artificial intelligence not simply to answer questions, but to help me build things.

Most of those things have been connected with mathematics education: self-marking worksheets, classroom games, visualisation tools, financial-literacy activities and a teacher portal for setting work and recording results. ESHEETS is where the finished resources live. This site is where I occasionally write about how they were made.

A little background

Before becoming a teacher, I worked in front-end web development. I was comfortable with HTML, CSS and JavaScript, but much of what I wanted to build for ESHEETS required knowledge outside my old skill set: databases, authentication, server hosting, deployment, payments and automation.

AI has helped me bridge those gaps.

It has not produced a functioning educational platform while I sat nearby drinking coffee. There have been broken builds, poor ideas, database errors, awkward interfaces and features that appeared perfectly sensible until I tried to use them with actual students.

AI makes ambitious projects more achievable. It does not remove the need for judgement, testing or a willingness to start again.

What this site is for

This is not an AI news website, a prompt library or a promise that artificial intelligence will transform your life before breakfast.

I write when I have something concrete to report: a project built, a problem solved, an experiment that worked or a mistake worth admitting to.

The posts will mainly be about:

  • building educational websites and classroom tools;
  • using AI for coding, design and problem-solving;
  • what happens when those tools meet real teachers and students;
  • the practical limitations of working with AI;
  • lessons learned while developing ESHEETS.

There is no fixed publishing schedule. Maintaining one website already keeps me adequately occupied.

About ESHEETS

ESHEETS is a GCSE mathematics website containing self-marking worksheets, games, puzzles and visualisation tools. It also includes a lightweight homework system through which teachers and tutors can set activities and view submitted results.

Most of the experiments discussed here eventually appear there in some usable form.

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