Our story
CueCurve makes the diagrams A-level Economics teachers draw every week – exam-style, ready to present, and quick to change in the middle of an explanation.
How it started
I've taught economics and maths in UK state schools for 20 years. For most of that time, I made my diagrams in PowerPoint, both for lessons and for the teaching resources I wrote. Getting each one to look right and match the exam was slow, painstaking work, and animating a shift so the class could see the relationship took even longer.
I wanted diagrams that look like the ones students are expected to draw in the exam, and that move in front of the class while I explain. I couldn't find them, so in 2025 I started building CueCurve. I use it in my own lessons, and it gets better from what happens there.
Why “CueCurve”?
A cue card is what you glance at to prompt the next thing you say. A curve is what economics teachers spend their lessons drawing, shifting and explaining. Put them together and you have the idea behind CueCurve: the right diagram, ready on cue, at the moment the lesson needs it.
What we care about
- Faithful to the exam. Clean, single-colour lines like an exam paper, with the shapes, labels and words your exam board uses – no grid lines, sliders or stray numbers.
- Built for the front of the room. Present full screen, step through 243 ready-made scenarios, and drag a curve while you explain.
- Made for teachers. Accounts are for school staff only. You're the expert at the front; CueCurve gives you the diagram.
- Private by design. No adverts and no tracking cookies. Your school's information is kept in a database in the UK.
CueCurve today
CueCurve LTD is a UK company (company number 17542571), and Tim Boughen is its director. We make 33 diagrams for A-level Economics. Four are free to use with no sign-up, and a school licence is £99 a year for your department.
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Questions? Email hello@cuecurve.co.uk.