Hello everyone !

[u/Evening_Sugar_8317]

Introduction

I'm an electrical engineering student and I recently started building a tool to help people learn math more easily, after realizing how powerful visualization can be in understanding mathematics. In many of my classes, concepts are very abstract and lack visual explanation. AIs like ChatGPT are good at explaining things, but they rely too much on text and not enough on clear visuals. There are some great videos online (like 3Blue1Brown), but they cover general concepts — not specific to each user.

The project

What I'm building is a tool that responds to your prompt by showing a series of animations forming a lesson custom-made for you. It walks you through the theory to explain the concept, then examples to show how it works, and when relevant, exercises to practice on your own. To start, I'm targeting high school level math, but further down the line I plan to implement more advanced concepts as well.

What I need from you

Tell me what you think — whether the concept seems useful, whether the lesson structure makes sense, whether the animations feel smooth, etc. I have a demo video attached.

Thanks!

[u/Odd-Narwhal9529]

Spoken like someone who probably used AI for most of their college. Most professors give visualizations. Jesus, dude, at least review the code to make sure the text doesn't overlap the figures, and if it does, make it a different color or have a gap in the figure.

[u/Evening_Sugar_8317 → u/Odd-Narwhal9529]

bruh, ai wasn't even a big thing when I was in college. thanks for the advice I guess

[u/17291]

A big problem I have with these AI explainers is that there's always the possibility of it being wrong, especially in some subtle way that will mislead or confuse the learner.

But also, there's a bunch of videos explaining K12 math out there. In what ways do you think this is better than looking up an explanation on Khan Academy?

In any event, here are some specific issues I see with your demo:

• It starts with an example with a=?, b=3, and c=5, but never follows through on how to solve for a.

• It works through a single example where c is unknown, but never shows worked examples where a or b are unknown

• The examples given are Pythagorean triples, which give nice integral answers, but the first problem it has the student do involves decimals. The examples should include decimals and irrational solutions. When it comes time to practice, there should be a ramp up in difficulty (maybe Pythagorean triples -> non-integral rationals -> irrationals)

• It should keep the formula on screen at all times, even when it's time for the learner to try themselves.

• I'm not a fan of multiple choice unless the distractors are very intentionally chosen. If you do have multiple choice with well-chosen distractors, you can then explain where the student (probably) made a mistake.

• I don't like the animations when solving the equation. Every step should be visible on the screen as if you were doing it on paper.

[u/Evening_Sugar_8317 → u/17291]

Thanks for the inputs. It's true that it could be wrong something, the only thing I can do is try to minimize the risk of that. I think this would be better than Khan because it would be build for the user specific need. Instead of searching for a subject, it would focuses on what you having trouble, inteas of the general tobpic. Also, eventually you could be able to upload pictures in order to solve very specific problem. So you see an animated explanation of your problem being solve.