NTU Students’ Educational App Receives Widespread Success

A phone application developed by a team of students from National Taiwan University has received raging success since it was launched in May this year.

NTU students have created a mobile application that helps young students solve learning problems via the internet.

The ScoreMaster is a “problem solving” application that caters to junior and senior high school students in need of assistance in terms of their school work. ScoreMaster has in the four months following its launch solved up to 3,000 student inquiries. As a result of its widespread success, it has been selected as a summer partner for Junyi Academy, a government sponsored, non-profit education platform dedicated to the equalization of education.

Junyi Academy was initiated by the Alliance Cultural Foundation. Through the utilization of internet resources, the academy aims at helping students from all across Taiwan, and those from remote areas in particular, receive equal opportunities to a better after-class education. The academy has selected NTU’s ScoreMaster as a partner for its summer mathematics program in the hopes to assist up to 90,000 students improve their mathematics during the three-month vacation.

Students enrolled in the math program can download the ScoreMaster app for free and submit any math question they encounter via the app, whereby an answer will be provided within 24 hours. This not only helps the young students learn more efficiently, the interaction also allows for the educators to gain a better understanding of the types of problems students encounter.

Founder of ScoreMaster Li-chun Yang (楊立群) points out that when combined with education, science is no longer cold and intangible, but rather, science is transformed into a meaningful service that encases great warmth.