Curious Mind: Self-correcting math exercises
▶Summary
1) Save the time of teachers preparing and correcting homework assignments to focus on other teaching tasks, like one-onone communication with students. 2) Improve the quality of study time in a c...
▶Objectives
1) Save the time of teachers preparing and correcting homework assignments to focus on other teaching tasks, like one-onone communication with students. 2) Improve the quality of study time in a class and at home by providing students with commented solution steps to all generated exercises. All students will get a deeper understanding of the topic they are studying. 3) Shorten the learning cycle of students by correcting their answers within 300 milliseconds (100 ms delivery of answer to server, 100 ms evaluation of answer, 100 ms delivery of evaluation result from server to student). Usually, when students do homework on the day 'x', they give it to a teacher for correction on day 'x+1' and receive the correction of their answers on day 'x+2'. This approach makes the learning cycle at least two days faster, that is 172,800,000 milliseconds.
▶Activities
1. Developed library Exercise Engine that generates parametric math exercises. 2. Developed web app that provides teachers with a module to create and manage class. 3. Dissemination acitivities. We have sent out email campaign infomring schools about our project. Followed up by webinars for teacher in which we showed them how to use the website and gathered feedback from them. 4. Developed online course preparation for high school entry exams. As bonus that was not on the initial plan we also organised live streamed tutoring session for children on YouTube. We enabled them to ask us direct questions live using the Vevox application.
▶Impact
Czech domain of the web app: https://www.zvedavamysl.cz/ Polish domain of the web app: https://ciekawyumysl.pl/ Link to webinar for Czech teachers: https://youtu.be/Gi3agw3rGsU Here is how Czech teachers expressed their gratitude about the project: https://youtu.be/BeIbb5xx-O0 Link to webinar for Polish teachers: https://youtu.be/d_mVczGgpWo Here are the bonus live stream on YouTube. On the first live stream we had 800 students live and later the video gathered 2 000 views in total: https://youtube.com/live/jky-0XsuVYo , https://youtube.com/live/9FNo_KnkjkM , https://youtube.com/live/TsbopbQaQvc , https://youtube.com/live/5ewHk1gMSBo , https://youtube.com/live/5nBQhqMLhY0 . Kindly note we have encountered unforseen technical dificulties on these live streams. We had problematic audio in the first three sessions. However we have resolved the issue as soon as we could. Furthermore on the third webinar we encountered problem with internet connection, which resulted into the live stream being interputed for about 5 minutes. However this was outside the scope of what we could influence, since the internet connection was not working on the side of national operator.