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December 13, 2007 - San Francisco, Calif - Hotmath, Inc. has added a new Math Instant Messaging feature to its award-winning website, www.hotmath.com. The leader in online math homework help, Hotmath.com displays hint-step explanations for the actual, odd-numbered homework problems used in more than 200 math textbooks used in US middle schools, high schools, and colleges. Math Instant Messaging allows students to study together in real time over the Internet.
The first U.S. education web site known to have embedded instant messaging technology, Hotmath's Math Instant Messaging allows students to collaborate on homework assignments online. Students use a pointer and &ldqup;texting” while viewing Hotmath hint-step explanations of textbook homework problems. They can communicate via instant messaging and a shared pointer to move through teacher-prepared problem explanations.
“Starting in November, when students need help on math homework they can turn to their friends, without having to be in the same location,” said Chuck Grant, Hotmath co-founder and a former mathematics teacher. “We hear news every day about instant messaging and the preferences of tweens and teens to communicate in this fashion. Yet, to my knowledge, no other U.S. education company has taken this powerful communications tool and integrated it with instructional content. Now students can work on math problems together in a cyber study hall. It makes working on homework much more efficient for students.”
The guided context of Hotmath for homework discussions helps students work through homework problems at a faster rate. Students move a pointer to a location in a troublesome hint or step, and then use a text-window to ask or answer a question.
According to Janet Tedesco, math teacher at Archbishop Rummel High School in Metairie, Louisiana, “Students seek help from friends on homework in study groups, by phone, and by IM, and I encourage that. Hotmath instant messaging allows such collaborations to have a far greater chance of imparting effective, correct help. I will certainly recommend it to my students, and I know they will benefit.”
Hotmath offers hint-step explanations of questions found in today's popular math textbooks. The company also offers practice tests for state exit exams, as well as Pre-Algebra, Algebra 1, and Algebra 2.
About Hotmath, Inc.
Founded in 2000 by math educators, Hotmath enhances student learning by helping them complete their math homework with understanding. Based on research showing that students learn better with guided help on homework, Hotmath.com provides step-by-step help with hints for the actual odd-numbered homework problems in math textbooks. Hotmath is a full-service math help resource including such resources as graphing calculator training, review lessons, math workbooks, and math activities. For more information visit Hotmath online at www.hotmath.com.
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