MATON

MATON: snap your notebook, get a Kreyòl tutor. In Haiti, most students do math on paper, think in Haitian Creole (Kreyòl), and many families share one phone. When a student gets a problem wrong, nobody is there to say where the mistake is. Tutoring apps assume English, a keyboard and typed equations. With MATON, the student takes a photo of the notebook page. That is the whole input: no typing, no prompt. MATON finds the exact step where the reasoning went wrong, circles it in red (and the good steps in green) on the student's own page, explains the mistake in Kreyòl with one guiding question (it never gives the answer away), and then gives new practice problems until the student gets three in a row. It works in two places: a web app (live at https://maton-adaptive-tutor.pages.dev, with a demo notebook button) and WhatsApp, the app many Haitian families already use every day. It is not a chatbot: the notebook page is the input, and the output is a corrected page, one explanation and a short practice loop. Covered today: arithmetic, fractions, powers, division with remainder and simple equations. Everything in the repository was built during the hackathon (first commit Oct 26, 2026). Only the MATON name, logo and colours existed before: MATON is an existing education platform in Haiti, and this tutor is a new, separate project that shares no code with it. Solo entry by Max Weber Chery.