Meet Socratic, an app that does your homework for you (and shows you how)

Traditional calculators are seen as a kind of beneficial and harmful simultaneously. On the one hand, it helps students not to waste time on complicated calculations. On the other hand, according to some teachers, they can harm learning, performing operations without the student necessarily understanding what is happening. What if there was a way to solve a complicated problem and teach how to solve the problem? This is the proposal of Socratic, app available for iOS.

A real “Lenwoloppali”

The great balcony of the Socratic is to read an equation, solve it and show how you arrived at the solution. Remember the "Lenwoloppali"Of The Big Bang Theory, no? Using the smartphone's own camera, the app reads a problem and shows a step by step on how to solve it. As? Using similar solutions within the database itself Socratic. If it doesn't find the solution, the app itself searches for it in the Google, explaining the concepts necessary to understand the problem.

Even more interesting is that the Socratic is not restricted to just mathematical problems. In theory, it is capable of solving problems in any area, from chemistry to history. The way to use it is the same: just use the camera to read a question. The “brain” behind the app is augmented reality, using free software to simulate the human brain. For the benefit of the student, it is completely free with no limitations.

Unfortunately, there is still no version for Android, but you can try it on the official website. But if your goal is to solve mathematical problems, there is the Photomath, available for both Android how much for iOS. has a iPhone ou iPad and already tried the Socratic? Tell us what you think in the comments!