Hello, everyone at Facebook.

Sorry, running a little bit late.

If you ask, I'll tell you about my morning (chuckles).

And it looks like we're online on YouTube, all right.

So this is good.

As you can imagine, this has been an interesting

improvisational situation for all of us,

so my apologies for getting started

a little late this morning.

But this is what,

our fourth live stream that we're doing?

And, you know, the whole goal of this is

we have all of these resources at Khan Academy

that we've been building over the last 10,

actually, 11, 12 years.

And we could've never foreseen this type of a situation.

You know, Khan Academy, we've always imagined

the ideal use case being used in physical classrooms,

so students could learn at their own time and pace,

give teachers information on where students are,

and be able to do more focused interventions

for your classtime for other things.

And also support students who might not have had

traditional schooling or if you're in some part

of the world that doesn't have that.

We would've never foreseen this

school closure situation we're in.

But Khan Academy is eerily well-suited

to at least help us work on this.

Because obviously, we have things from Khan Academy Kids,

for early learners, for math, reading,

writing, social-emotional learning.

And then you get into the core of Khan Academy,

in math for sure, all the way through

from middle school, high school,

elementary school through college,

English language arts, SAT Practice.

We have the sciences, especially at the high school level,

AP level, and also several humanities,

American history, et cetera.

And the purpose of this live stream

is to give a little bit more connectedness to this.

Some people are starting

to call this kind of a homeroom for us (chuckles).

And like homeroom is in school,

it's the time to talk about anything,

a time, whatever announcements need to be made, et cetera,

and also just get a little bit of motivation,

a little bit of energy for the day.

Whether you're a teacher, you're a parent or a student,

this is just a reminder

that we're all going through this together,

and we're all gonna figure it out together.

And so I encourage anyone,

start asking questions on,

whether you're watching on Facebook or YouTube.

On the streams, I have team members

who are looking at those questions,

who are going to be surfacing them up

on my tablet right over here.

And so I'll know who to answer questions for.

You know, just a couple of updates on our side,

we are seeing, and I guess this isn't super-surprising,

but unusual traffic on Khan Academy.

What I heard from our team is Monday we saw 50%

larger than expected usage and then yesterday 80%,

and we're seeing kind of 10X the number

of teacher and student and parent registrations.

So that's great, that it sounds like a lot of people

are realizing that this is a resource that they can turn to.

It's free, it's accessible.

And hopefully, as we go through this crisis,

folks become more comfortable with using it.

And I think there's some ideas we can talk about

of how to complement it.

I do want to say thank you to Bank of America.

For those of you who don't know, Khan Academy,

we are not-for-profit.

That means no one owns Khan Academy.

We are not a company.

I don't own Khan Academy.

You own as much of Khan Academy as I do.

And we're funded through philanthropy.

And we love that we're able to serve everyone right now

as we have this crisis.

But our server costs are going through the roof.

We're having demand,

more folks to be able to do things like webinars.

We had a very large parent webinar

that had a thousand parents on it last night.

And so it's really valuable

that Bank of America stepped up.

You could do a Google search

and read about that press release.

But they stepped up to really support this,

you can almost call it a relief effort,

that we're trying to up our game at Khan Academy

to make sure everyone feels connected and supported.

And expect to see more from us

and our partners like Bank of America.

So thank you to Bank of America for that.

But let me get to,

let me get to some of the questions here.

So the first question is,

"How do I figure out what my child should be learning?"

So there's a couple of ways to answer that.

Obviously, as a parent,

you might know what grade your student's in.

And you might say, "Okay, my student's a fifth grader."

That might be an indication that fifth grade

on Khan Academy might be a really good place to start.

I will put a little asterisk there, little bit of a caveat.

What we found, even when working with traditional schools,

is the reason why a lot of kids have trouble,

and this is especially true in math,

but it's also true in things like reading and writing,

but especially in math, they might have trouble

in fifth, sixth, seventh grade math.

It's not because they're not bright.

It's not because the subject matter is difficult.

It's because as they went through

their academic foundations, they had some gaps.

They might have been in third grade

when they were learning multiplication tables.

They just didn't learn their seven times tables well.

And they got a C on a test,

and then they just moved on to the next thing.

And so when they see, have to multiply something by seven

in sixth grade, they just have to spend

a little bit too much cognitive load.

Or their decimals in fifth grade are a gap.

And so when they see a decimal in seventh grade, it's a gap.

So one thing we've seen teachers do to great effect,

there's an amazing teacher, Tim Vandenberg,

who I was talking to two days ago.

He was telling me how, with his sixth graders,

he starts them all on kindergarten on Khan Academy.

And if you know the material,

the students can go through each course quite quickly.

We have things like Course Challenges, Unit Tests,

Mastery Challenges that can accelerate students through it.

That helps them build some momentum, build some confidence,

get familiarity with the platform,

and then it ensures that they don't have any gaps.

So he has his students do early learning

and then do the arithmetic courses on Khan Academy

and the third grade courses.

He'd use those as the foundational ones and simultaneously

work on the grade-level course on Khan Academy.

If your student has, for the most part,

been proficient in math, then I would go straight

to the grade-level course on Khan Academy.

If, since we're already well into the year,

I would have your child,

and if you're a student, I would have you

take the Course Challenge,

and the Course Challenge will sample every unit.

And if you take the Course Challenge

and you get an 80 or 90% on it,

keep taking the Course Challenge

and try to get higher and higher scores

until you have mastery in the course.

But if you see there's some gaps

that you're consistently not getting right,

then those skills,

you can look at those units that they come from,

and then you can ensure that you get mastery in those units.

And so that's a way that we're,

you know, we're 3/4 or 80% through the year,

that you can quickly know what you know

and what you don't know and where you need

to actually fill in your gaps.

So that's my personal view of the quickest way to figure out

where might be the right zone for you.

And the same thing is true at the high school level.

You know, even high school students,

doesn't hurt starting a little bit behind.

You have more time now,

and make sure you fill in those gaps.

And things like our SAT Practice

that we do with the College Board, that adapts to you.

So if you start getting questions of a certain skill wrong,

it'll give you slightly easier ones

or then slightly harder ones if you get 'em right.

So that's my best advice there.

You know, some people have been asking

for just general tips.

And I was on some of the morning shows today,

and what I say is make sure you have some structure today.

As we get more days into the social distancing,

it's very tempting to stay in your pajamas

and kinda try to work from bed

with the TV running and all that.

That's not going to be good,

and it's not good even for your own mental health.

It's good to have a pattern.

Wake up in the morning,

just like you would have done for school.

Have your breakfast.

Get ready.

I even heard about some people pretending

like they're on a bus for some period.

I guess that's maybe a form of meditation.

And then break into the schedule.

And we, at Khan Academy,

we've released some schedules for school closures,

and it's for different schedules for different age groups

that have different amounts breaks

and things like that in them.

But use those.

You could use those just as they are,

or you can modify them to meet your needs.

But if you have that schedule,

then that also gives you a clearer sense,

as, hey, if I get all this done by one o'clock

in the afternoon or two o'clock, I can then relax,

I can then go do other things,

pursue my passions, work on other hobbies.

Ideally, you have a place in the house

that is nice and clean, free of clutter,

where you just associate that with work.

And that spatial association, I think,

will help your productivity.

All right, so we have Sayed Mohel Rosales asked

"Will Khan Academy always be free?"

Simple answer is yes.

You know our mission statement is free world-class education

for anyone, anywhere.

The whole idea about being a not-for-profit,

there's nothing wrong with for-profit companies.

Most of my career I'd worked at some form

of a for-profit or an other.

But a for-profit company at the end of the day,

their bottom line literally, is,

you know maximizing shareholder value or income,

or things like that.

Nothing wrong with that, that's how capitalism works.

But a not-for-profit, its bottom line is its mission,

and our mission is free,

world-class education for anyone, anywhere.

And the reason why we set it up

as a not-for-profit you know twelve

years ago I could have never foreseen

this scenario is because there's certain

parts of our market economy where