Pham Khac Canh, developer of the math solving application Math Solver for smartphones. (Photo: tuoitre.vn) HCM City (VNA) - A mathproblem-solving application created by a Vietnamese engineer has beendownloaded by thousands of smart-phone users recently.
Uploadedto the Play Store and Apple Store distribution platforms about four monthsago, Math Solver has been downloaded nearly 100,000 times bystudents in Vietnam, India, Russia, the US, Europe and several Southeast Asiancountries.
Itscreator, Pham Khac Canh, specialised in math when he studied at Tran Dai NghiaGifted High School in the southern province of Binh Thuan. He chose to major ininformation technology at the HCM City Polytechnic University, and went on toearn a Master’s degree in the field at the HCM City University of NaturalSciences.
Canhstarted developing his own math solving application in 2015. From the first twolanguages of Vietnamese and English, Russian, Thai, Korean and Chinese optionshave been added to Math Solver. Two others – Japanese and Cambodian– are on the way.
MathSolver is capable of solving different types of math – fromgeneral to advanced levels – such as drawing graphs, solving equations andinequalities, calculating integral calculus, derivatives, limits, differentialequations and extreme functions. Users select the type of problems they want tosolve and input the questions and the application will provide them withdetailed answers in seconds, depending on the questions’ levels of difficulty.
Theapplication is said to be fast and accurate. La Thanh Tung, a math lecturer atthe Sai Gon University, said the application provides “pretty accurate” answersto different math questions at university level.
Notonly providing answers, the application also gives users detailed explanationsof the problems in steps, which can be used as references for pupils, studentsand teachers, said Nguyen Tang Vu, a math teacher at the High School for theGifted under the HCM City National University.
PhamThanh Phong, head of the math department at the HCM City University ofEconomics and Finance, said it provided accurate answers to 95 percent of mathquestions at university level, 90 percent of questions in the branch ofeconomic math, and 70 percent in engineering math.
“Engineeringmath problems tend to be more in-depth,” he said. “The application can’t solve rareand extremely complex questions.”
Some10,000 questions in various types have been added to the application over thelast two years with support from university math lecturers and high school mathteachers, who provided Canh with banks of questions and consultancy inmathematical solutions and theorems.
Analgorithm has been added to the application, which will record all questions ithas solved and apply it to solve the next, more difficult ones faster.
“Iam still improving the application’s features based on users’ comments,” Canhsaid.
“Differentfrom foreign math applications, Math Solver is aimed atsolving common math problems,” he added. “It focuses on general math forms,targeting pupils, students and providing detailed solutions to problems so theycan take them as references for their studies.”
“I’mdeveloping more features so that the application will be able to solve geometryproblems and calculate matrixes.”
What makes Math Solver stand out is that itis free of charge and works without an internet connection, Canh said. Also, itis able to calculate limits of trigonometric functions – a functionthat most foreign math applications are unable to perform, he added.
Apartfrom dealing with math, the application also helps students learn chemistry,although it can only provide them with chemical formulas and knowledge testingquestionnaires.
Canh’swife, Nguyen Thi Y Nhi – a chemistry graduate from the HCM City PolytechnicUniversity – is in charge of developing the chemistry feature. Since Canhstarted programming the application, Nhi contacted several chemistry teachersand students who excel in the subject to ask chemistry questions and advice onchemistry.-VNA
Uploadedto the Play Store and Apple Store distribution platforms about four monthsago, Math Solver has been downloaded nearly 100,000 times bystudents in Vietnam, India, Russia, the US, Europe and several Southeast Asiancountries.
Itscreator, Pham Khac Canh, specialised in math when he studied at Tran Dai NghiaGifted High School in the southern province of Binh Thuan. He chose to major ininformation technology at the HCM City Polytechnic University, and went on toearn a Master’s degree in the field at the HCM City University of NaturalSciences.
Canhstarted developing his own math solving application in 2015. From the first twolanguages of Vietnamese and English, Russian, Thai, Korean and Chinese optionshave been added to Math Solver. Two others – Japanese and Cambodian– are on the way.
MathSolver is capable of solving different types of math – fromgeneral to advanced levels – such as drawing graphs, solving equations andinequalities, calculating integral calculus, derivatives, limits, differentialequations and extreme functions. Users select the type of problems they want tosolve and input the questions and the application will provide them withdetailed answers in seconds, depending on the questions’ levels of difficulty.
Theapplication is said to be fast and accurate. La Thanh Tung, a math lecturer atthe Sai Gon University, said the application provides “pretty accurate” answersto different math questions at university level.
Notonly providing answers, the application also gives users detailed explanationsof the problems in steps, which can be used as references for pupils, studentsand teachers, said Nguyen Tang Vu, a math teacher at the High School for theGifted under the HCM City National University.
PhamThanh Phong, head of the math department at the HCM City University ofEconomics and Finance, said it provided accurate answers to 95 percent of mathquestions at university level, 90 percent of questions in the branch ofeconomic math, and 70 percent in engineering math.
“Engineeringmath problems tend to be more in-depth,” he said. “The application can’t solve rareand extremely complex questions.”
Some10,000 questions in various types have been added to the application over thelast two years with support from university math lecturers and high school mathteachers, who provided Canh with banks of questions and consultancy inmathematical solutions and theorems.
Analgorithm has been added to the application, which will record all questions ithas solved and apply it to solve the next, more difficult ones faster.
“Iam still improving the application’s features based on users’ comments,” Canhsaid.
“Differentfrom foreign math applications, Math Solver is aimed atsolving common math problems,” he added. “It focuses on general math forms,targeting pupils, students and providing detailed solutions to problems so theycan take them as references for their studies.”
“I’mdeveloping more features so that the application will be able to solve geometryproblems and calculate matrixes.”
What makes Math Solver stand out is that itis free of charge and works without an internet connection, Canh said. Also, itis able to calculate limits of trigonometric functions – a functionthat most foreign math applications are unable to perform, he added.
Apartfrom dealing with math, the application also helps students learn chemistry,although it can only provide them with chemical formulas and knowledge testingquestionnaires.
Canh’swife, Nguyen Thi Y Nhi – a chemistry graduate from the HCM City PolytechnicUniversity – is in charge of developing the chemistry feature. Since Canhstarted programming the application, Nhi contacted several chemistry teachersand students who excel in the subject to ask chemistry questions and advice onchemistry.-VNA
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