Sal Khan actually built tools to help his cousin in New Orleans with her math homework.

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If you couldn't do your math homework and your parents were working, you found a cousin to help.

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As an engineering student, Johan lived below a family of seven children, one of which was struggling with his math homework.

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He and pal Scott Kolb conceived of Slader in 2010, after reminiscing about their high school days in San Diego when they struggled with math homework.

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My question is this -- and I'm speaking on behalf of all of us math teachers up here -- when you were a freshman in high school specifically, did you have math homework every night?

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In order to secure this advantage, they will do pretty much anything, which means not just taking care of all the cooking and cleaning but also helping their children with math homework, hiring them S.A.T. tutors, and, if necessary, suing their high school.

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Insoo has a difficult math problem as homework.

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Sherrets does do his homework, but primarily in things like math and English.

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Students can enter their specific homework problems and get immediate answers, including a "Show steps" feature for math-related queries.

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