Google recently announced a new feature for the Google Lens app that will make learning math easier for students. This was part of a series of new education tools and features that Google announced last week, aimed at improving the experience for all those who now find themselves having to study from home.
With the pandemic still raging across the US, millions of school children, as well as parents, are relying on digital tools and the internet to make sense of concepts in textbooks. While there are many online learning platforms for all the different subjects in the school curriculum, many might still prefer to learn using textbooks, especially when it comes to math. However, it can be difficult to derive equations and solve problems all on your own without a teacher to guide you. Moreover, specific equations and formulae are difficult to look up on the internet, unlike concepts that can be described using words. The specific format of equations means they are time-consuming and tricky to type into search engines. It gets even more difficult when it comes to derivations with multiple steps.
This is where Google Lens's new feature can help. Students or parents who come across a perplexing equation in a textbook or other reading material can now take a picture of it using Google Lens to identify it. The feature was announced along with a series of new educational tools and features. For example, a collection of 3D visual content available in Search to explain concepts in science, upgrades to the Socratic app that can help students with their homework, and the Read Along app to help small children learn to read. The focus is clearly on mobile devices as most of these improvements are designed to be used on an Android or iOS device.
To get started solving math problems, all users need to do is to open the Google Lens app on their device (this will automatically turn on the camera) and then take a snapshot of the individual mathematical expression written or printed on a page. The app will then identify it and provide a helpful collection of online results that should make it easier to understand the expression, or give suggestions on how to solve it.
For those new to the technology, Google Lens is an image-recognition solution developed by Google and is designed to identify objects, and then surface relevant online resources related to it. These could be actual objects, words or images. In addition, users can reverse search with Google Lens by selecting the relevant option in the touch drop-down menu, or use Lens to help with translations.
Previously, the technology was erratic in identifying mathematical expressions and often ended up giving bizarre results. However, it seems like Google has found a way to make it consistently accurate enough to help children and parents climb the mathematics mountain during the pandemic.
Source: Google
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