US math godfather rejects $1 billion free sharing instructional video

American 39-year-old "math Godfather"

1 billion USD free sharing instructional video

America's 39-year-old "math Godfather", Salman Khan, gave up $1 trillion in business opportunities and rejected a $1 billion investment by VCs, the only thing he insisted on was free sharing of instructional video. He explained that mathematics is easy to understand, overturned American education, there are more than 20,000 schools all over the United States do not need math teacher lectures, just see his video on the line.

To help her niece, inadvertently become "The Godfather of Mathematics"

Salman, an immigrant from Bangladesh, was poor at home, but he was gifted in mathematics, enrolled in the Massachusetts Institute of Science, and spent four years reading two major courses in mathematics and computer sciences.

Salman has a small niece called Nadia, 2004, seven grade, mathematics has been poor, asked Salman to her counseling. Two people are not in the same city, Salman through the internet to teach the niece to learn maths, speak lively and interesting, niece's math performance improved rapidly. Soon, many friends also asked him to tutor math for his children. After his tutoring, the math scores went straight up.

Salman thought, such counseling efficiency is too low, rather than make video, put on the internet to let everyone watch for free. His video was so vivid that he could finish up a mathematical concept in 10 minutes, attracting attention on the Internet.

Salman recorded a one-year video, ranging from elementary math to high school calculus to advanced math at college, all over the 4,800 videos. These videos have been a great success on the Internet, with clickthrough rates close to 500 million, and Salman has become a "math Godfather".

Subversion of traditional education school math teacher no longer lectures

in the United States, there are more than 20,000 schools, math class teacher has no longer lectures, let students watch Salman video, the teacher is only responsible for answering questions. In this way, he alone with a cable to subvert the American traditional education, set off a revolution.

Salman also set up a Web site called Khan College, put the video on his website, so that children like playing games to learn math. Khan College visited 5 million visitors a month, and MIT's open-course website visited only 1.5 million visitors per month.

the computer-savvy Salman also designed a software to track learners ' progress and to evaluate learning effects. "If you teach maths in the United States, you can't have never heard of Salman Khan," said Meyer, a US high school math teacher. "

refusing 1 billion dollars he just wants to teach math on the internet for free

after Salman's video was successful, many VC companies found him, hoping to inject money into the company to charge the video, Salman could immediately become a wealthy man with $1 billion. But Salman refused, he would rather be a middle class, and never charge. "As soon as the fees are charged, children in many developing countries cannot afford to look down," he said. "

in 2012, Salman successfully boarded the cover of Forbes magazine. "This is a $1 trillion business opportunity, and the company with the highest market capitalisation today is just $700 billion," Forbes wrote. But Salman just refused, he is to free! "

Google, which is also a supporter of Khan College, injected $2 million into it. With financial support, Salman began to expand teaching subjects and translate courses into multiple languages. With the help of a large number of experts in various fields, the courses of Khan College now include history, medicine, finance, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, economics and so on.

Source: China Business news Release date: 2015/9/19 23:32:06

US math godfather rejects $1 billion free sharing instructional video