31st Century Technology

The name of my project is SolveAm ("SolveAm" is Nigerian Pidgin English for "Solve It"). SolveAm is a tool uniquely designed to help students sitting for their West African Examinations Council (WAEC) exam pass their Math paper with flying colours. I decided to build it because every year, over 750,000 students fail to score at least a C6 in their WAEC Math exam. In Nigeria, failing to score at least a C6 in Math or English means you cannot gain admission into higher education—forcing you to wait an extra year to pay and sit for the exams all over again. As a part-time teacher, it breaks my heart to see my students feel such deep pain and shame when they fail their WAEC exams. It hurts them deeply to watch their friends and classmates move forward and gain admission into university while they are left sitting at home for a full year. Solving this problem is also deeply personal to me because in 2016, I failed my own WAEC Math exam with an E8. Because I have lived through it myself, I understand this problem—and how painful it feels—better than most people. How SolveAm Works SolveAm works in a very simple and intuitive way: Snap & Upload: Students take a picture of any math exam question they need help with and upload it to SolveAm. Choose Your Level: They select whether they want explanations tailored for a Beginner, Intermediate, or Expert in math. Step-by-Step Breakdown: A clear, step-by-step breakdown of the math problem is displayed on their screen. Ask Professor SolveAm: To help students truly understand why each step works, we added an "Ask Professor SolveAm" button on every single step so students can ask follow-up questions by voice or text whenever they get confused. Active Practice with Twin Questions: To help students go from merely watching how a problem is solved to actually solving problems on their own, we built a Practice feature. After learning how to solve their original problem, students can use our Twin Question Generator to create a fresh practice question that is very similar to the one they just studied. Official WAEC "Red-Pen" Grading: Students can then test themselves by solving the new question in their physical paper notebook. Once they finish, they simply snap and upload their handwritten solution to SolveAm, where every line is graded using the exact same [M1] Method and [A1] Accuracy marking system used by official WAEC Math examiners. With these features, I strongly believe that any student who uses SolveAm to prepare for their WAEC Math exam has a significantly higher chance of passing with flying colour