Slader's New Free Mobile App Helps Students Solve Their Homework Problems

NEW YORK, Nov. 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Slader, an online platform and student network for homework collaboration, today announced a new free mobile app available in the Apple App store: www.slader.com/app. Slader's mobile app includes several innovative features that enable students to solve homework problems, interact directly with peers and make money. To date, Slader has helped over two million high school and early college students in more than 200 countries, empowering them to solve more than two million problems from 90 percent of the top high school textbooks.

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"Slader's objective is to provide a platform for students that is both engaging and takes advantage of the way they already interact with each other, meeting students' needs as social learners," said Kyle Gerrity, co-founder of Slader. "Homework is too often used as a take-home test where students find themselves struggling in isolation. Slader breaks down that barrier and allows students to leverage their peers for help and be members of an academic community."

Slader empowers students to take control of their academic experience by providing an environment where they can collaborate with their peers without feeling patronized or embarrassed for asking for help on their homework. Slader's mobile and web apps provide students with free step-by-step solutions and written explanations to their homework problems and offer real-time interactivity with other students around the world. Unlike any other homework help available today, all of the homework answers on Slader are provided by students themselves and give immediate relief from pressing homework assignments, rather than requiring students to spend additional time with tangential learning materials.

On Slader, students can browse textbooks to find those assigned to classes they are taking; view solutions to problems in their books; comment on solutions to provide explanation to other students; and rate solutions based on their accuracy. Slader also has a built-in reward system where students can make money for contributing their input to the homework problems on the site.

Slader's Mobile App Features and Benefits
Slader's new mobile app brings the web functionality to iOS devices and helps students to:

• Make money on Slader: Students can earn Slader "Gold," a virtual currency that students offer to peers as a reward for solving specific homework problems and can be exchanged for real currency.
• Solve real homework problems: Through the mobile app, if a student wants a homework problem solved, they can offer Gold, take a picture of their problem and post it to Slader for another student to solve. Students can also take a picture of the homework answer they've solved, upload it to Slader.com and they're then rewarded with Gold.
• Interact directly with peers: Regardless of geographic location, students can browse through textbooks and exchange explanations and answers with each other.

Slader's new app functionality was built by a student app developer, Sam Giddins, while he was a senior at Scarsdale Senior High School in Scarsdale, NY. Giddins was searching for an internship when he realized that Slader, a website he and his peers used prolifically, was also based in New York City. Throughout the development process, Giddins guided direction of app development towards the mindset of a high schoolers and how the student demographic wants to interact with Slader.

Slader's co-founders, Kyle Gerrity and Scott Kolb, met while they were in high school and came up with the idea for founding Slader as a result of their own experiences struggling with homework.

"No student wants to be a failure, but they don't often have the mechanisms available to succeed when they need it," said Scott Kolb, co-founder of Slader. "With the right tools and positive reinforcement, most students welcome the opportunity to master concepts. We designed our mobile app to help students learn and succeed quickly and easily. After they download the app, all students have to do is turn to their phone to access the same rich information that's available on the web. Slader is a natural extension of the social environment students are already interacting with via web and mobile."

About Slader
Slader is for students, by students. The company's mission is to help students learn, connect and succeed by providing an online platform and student network for homework collaboration. Unlike other academic platforms, Slader offers content that is entirely user-generated, free and built for the social environment that students already rely on to connect with each other. Slader has helped millions of students in 200+ countries overcome frustration with their nightly homework, and has empowered student contributors to solve more than 2 million problems from 90 percent of the top high school textbooks. Slader's vision is to provide every student with open access to the academic resources that empower their success. Founded in 2010 by Kyle Gerrity and Scott Kolb, Slader is a privately funded company, based in New York City. www.slader.com

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