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Let's help university lecturers teach smarter, not harder.

Anyone who has taken a university math class has probably experienced something like the following: the lecturer starts with an easy example that most students already understand. The example takes more time than the lecturer anticipated, and they are forced to push material off to the next lecture. The result is that difficult to understand material is often skipped, or crammed in the week before an exam. This leads to unhappy and stressed students.

The underlying problem is that curricula often contains more material than instructors can reasonably cover in depth. What if we could help instructors emphasize the material that students need covered in lecture, and economically brush past material that students can learn on their own? What if there was an app that could:

(a) poll students a few days before a lecture on which topics/concepts they already understand,
(b) suggest the relative level of importance of the topics to the instructor to help them plan their lesson in advance,
(c) notify the instructor during the lecture when the amount of time allocated for a topic is coming to a close,
(d) allow the instructor to record the extent to which they over or underestimated the time necessary to cover a concept, and
(e) provide instructors with statistics on their past lectures and those of other instructors.

I would probably start by focusing on college calculus since that is what I have personal experience teaching.

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