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Sal Khan
American educator (born )
This article is about the American educator. For other people named Salman Khan, see Salman Khan (disambiguation).
Salman "Sal" Amin Khan (born October&#;11,&#;) is an American educator and the founder of Khan Academy, a free online non-profit educational platform with which he has produced over 6, video lessons teaching a wide spectrum of academic subjects, originally focusing on mathematics and science.[1] He is also the founder of Khan Lab School, a private in-person school in Mountain View, California.[2]
As of January&#;[update], the Khan Academy channel on YouTube has million subscribers, and its videos have been viewed more than two billion times.[3] In , Khan was named in the annual publication of Time [4] In the same year, he was featured on the cover of Forbes, with the tagline "The $1 Trillion Opportunity."[5]
Early life and family
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Sal Khan, an entrepreneur, created the online schema, Khan Academy, a free online tutoring service.
Key Fact
Salman Khan was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, on October 11, to Fakhrul Amin Khan and Masuda Khan. He was the child of immigrants—his mother was born in India and his father comes from Bangladesh.
Setback
Growing up his family didn’t have a ton of money which made college seem out of reach and discouraged him which was a setback. When Sal's sister got scholarships, he realized that he could get into top schools with a little bit of hard work.
Quiz
How many siblings does Khan have?
- 1 sister
- 2 brothers
- 2 sisters
- 1 brother
Key Fact
Khan recalls that “a few classmates were fresh out of jail and others were bound for top universities” at his high school in Louisiana, Grace King High School.
Success
Khan graduated as Valedictorian at his High School in
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“Welcome to the presentation on basic addition.”
I stare into the empty black frame of the YouTube video — literally a blank digital slate. The voice is jaunty, conversational, ridiculously awake. I half expect it to offer me a menu of options: Press two for advanced suuub-traction. Press three for looong di-vision.
“I know what you’re thinking: ‘Sal, addition doesn’t seem so basic to me.’ Well, I apologize. Hopefully by the end of this presentation it will seem… basic.”
A low-resolution arrow stutters into the frame.
“Let’s say that I start with an old classic. ONE. PLUS. ONE.” The arrow descends, leaving in its wake a jagged, aliased line — the hasty chicken scratch of a Microsoft Paint scribble. “Now I think you already know how to do this but I’ll show you a way of doing this in case you don’t have this memorized or you haven’t already mastered this.”
Have I not mastered this? Why can’t I look away?
“Well, if I have one” — the arrow draws a rudi