MerlinPix is a tool created by Benjamin Jen, Patrick Renner, and Yu-En (Kevin) Tung to help high school student Cady Heron learn calculus more efficiently. Cady is struggling in her calculus course due to lack of time from her extracurricular activities. MerlinPix uses text recognition and step-by-step solutions to help students like Cady quickly learn how to solve difficult math problems and obtain homework help. Screen mockups demonstrate features for obtaining solutions and recognizing problems from photos of homework.

1. MerlinPix
Say ✌bye✌ to teachers and calculators
Team Merlin
Benjamin Jen
Patrick Renner
Yu-En (Kevin) Tung

2. Problem Recap
● Math is hard
● Inputting on WolframAlpha, Piazza is tedious
● Calculators, laptops are usually required

3. Meet Cady Heron
Cady is a high school student in Evanston. After being
homeschooled in Africa for the last 12 years, she decided to
partake in various extracurricular activities in order to meet
new people and to make friends. Unfortunately, all these
extracurriculars take away her time to study for her Calculus
course. Her grades have been dropping and she is searching
for a tool to help her with the class.

4. Cady Heron
Think -Wants a faster way to learn the
material
See -Many difficult math problems
she doesn’t understand
Feel -Frustrated, embarrassed, and
pressed for time
Do -Looking for resources to speed
up learning

5. Use Case #1
As a student taking Math 115, I want to quickly obtain
step-by-step solutions to difficult problems so that I can learn
how they’re solved in a timely manner.

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14. Use Case #2
As a busy student, I forgot to grab homework during lecture, so
my friend sent me a picture of his copy but I’m having trouble
solving all the questions.

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22. Hypothesis
Efficient, helpful way to master math
Confirm
Text recognition is a reasonable solution

23. Project Details
● Math through Calculus BC, Linear Algebra
● WolframAlpha API, text recognition API
● Custom keyboards for additional input