MathFlow

Intelligent tutoring system for math. I designed & built the app.

• Personalized adaptive learning
• 10x shorter feedback loop
• 100x cheaper than a human tutor

Demo

mathflow-demo.mp4

Live app: https://mathflow-45dc3.firebaseapp.com/

Post mortem

I wrote a post-mortem about the business case & why it failed: https://teemu-helenius.fi/blog/mathflow/

Technical overview

Frontend

The frontend is developed with React + TypeScript. The src/ includes the relevant source code for frontend and is self-describing.

Features:

• On home screen user can continue the learning session where he left last time. See the first prototype layout
• Learning session automatically gives user more challenging exercies and topics as the user gets better (Adaptive learning). See the issue for details about the algorithm.

Backend

The backend is developed with Firebase. The project utilizes

• Authentication with Google provider
• Firestore for storing user's skill levels per topic.
• Hosting for the frontend SPA

Development

Install dependencies npm i

Start local development npm run dev