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AI Maths
Maths in isiXhosa, with an authentic click voice. Learners read a sentence in their own language, press the speaker icon when they are not sure, and hear it come back correctly.
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Maths and money skills, taught in a voice learners recognise as their own.
Haibo Phanda is a South African non-profit organisation. We build AI learning tools with purpose, around two things only: maths education and financial literacy.
What we focus on
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Financial Literacy
The maths of everyday money, taught the same way: plain lessons a learner can read, hear and practise in her own language.
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rural Eastern Cape schools doing maths in isiXhosa
A language option is not the same as inclusion.
A voice that cannot say a click is not speaking isiXhosa. So the clicks were rebuilt from the ground up, a linguist was recorded for the words engineering could not produce, and first-language speakers caught the subtle errors.
The audio was tested in Eastern Cape classrooms in launch week and confirmed correct by speakers who teach in isiXhosa every day, including the numbers.
- Matific provided the curriculum.
- Click Learning provided the schools, the hardware and the teachers.
- The Eastern Cape Department of Education supported the rollout.
- Summitwebcraft built the isiXhosa voice and the clicks.
It started with HelloTutor
Not one of the available voices could say the complex clicks. So we built one that could.
HelloTutor was built to teach authentic isiXhosa. It came first, and the maths work in the Eastern Cape grew from it.
About Haibo Phanda
A registered non-profit organisation.
NPO registration 319-995.