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Other | Mountain View, CA, United States
*This is a 20+ hour per week contract position for 3-6 months*
Khan Academy is looking for smart and creative math content creators to write and curate math questions that, with our existing videos and exercises, help us build high-quality, comprehensive math experiences on our site. The questions you write will have the potential to help millions of people around the world learn and demonstrate mastery of various math topics.
For this project, we’re looking for creative contractors who can develop fantastic math content, regardless of formal training or background. You could be a PhD in math, a lifelong teacher, a current grad student, or anything else. What we care about is that you have a strong mastery of math, a deep intuition for how people learn, a passion for teaching and learning, and a great sense of humor. We anticipate that this project may last about 3-6 months, with opportunities to continue depending on quality of work and Khan Academy’s needs.
Responsibilities include:
- Writing questions for math topics: Using our standards-based framework as your guide, you’ll create questions that will support our existing videos and exercises to create a comprehensive math experience. Questions may include basic math problems, complicated word problems, interactive explorations, and anything else that helps students learn and prove mastery of various math topics on our site. We’re particularly interested in questions that help students check their understanding as they learn, encourage deep comprehension, and make the learning process fun and joyful.
- Writing hints for questions: Great hints enable students to not only understand the problem at hand, but also to develop a deeper intuition for the concepts covered in the problem. You’ll create hints that make students feel as though their favorite tutor is sitting with them, helping them discover new knowledge and build their skills.
- Curating questions: In some cases, we may have access to question banks on a topic you’ve undertaken. You’ll look into these question banks to identify high-quality questions that support an excellent, comprehensive math experience, and you’ll map those questions to our taxonomy.
- Ensuring comprehensiveness and mapping topics: You’ll make sure that topics you’re working on are coherent and comprehensive in terms of question coverage. Part of this will involve mapping questions to relevant standards including the Common Core.
- Creating specs: While many of the questions you write will be generated by you, in some cases you may want to include machine-generated questions to round out your topic. For example, questions like our intuition and graphing exercises need to be generated by a computer. Exercises like 1-digit addition, where we want a wide range of similar problems in one exercise, can also benefit from being machine-generated. If you want to include machine-generated questions in your topic, you’ll write specs that our software developers can use to create the questions you envision.
You need:
- Great intuition for how students like to learn and a mastery of math
- A penchant for organizing content and thinking about topics comprehensively
- Excellent writing and time-management skills
- A passion for education and a desire to change the world
- Computer skills (e.g., comfort with HTML)
- At least 20 hours per week to commit to this project
In addition to your resume, please:
1) Find 3 examples of good questions on any math topic and 3 examples of not-so-good questions (in both cases, show a basic, intermediate and advanced question).
Let us know why the questions and video content you selected are good and not-so-good. Your explanation doesn’t have to be formal; a few paragraphs or a short video would be great.
2) Write 3 original questions on a math topic of your choice, and tell us why they are good questions. Quality and creativity of questions are most important, but we tend to get excited about questions that also manage to be funny and thought-provoking.
3) Tell us about yourself. In particular, let us know
- a bit about your background, especially any experiences you have teaching and/or creating questions (formally or informally)
- why you’re interested in this project
- whether you have used Khan Academy, and if so, how you have used it
These may seem like a strange replacement for a cover letter, but we want to make sure we find people who gel with our ethos.
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