As I do every year, I am taking this week to relax, recharge, and ski with friends. While I’m away I will be re-running the most popular posts of the year. This was the second most popular post in October, 2014.
PhotoMath is a new iPhone and Windows phone app that will provide users with the solution to math problems. PhotoMath users can take a picture of a math problem in a book and have the problem completed for them. The “steps” button on the app will show users the steps needed to successfully solve the math problem.
PhotoMath from MicroBLINK on Vimeo.
Applications for Education
Obviously, PhotoMath is an app that students can use to check answers to math problems that have been assigned to them from a math textbook. What I am curious about is how this app could encourage teachers to change the way they think about math assignments. David Wees and Scott McLeod have already started this conversation. I encourage math teachers to join the conversations that David and Scott have started.
Photomath http://t.co/U2b2vgwcNv If you are still giving routine problems to your students, you might want to see this app. #mathchat
— David Wees (@davidwees) October 21, 2014
