The Seven-Day-a-Week Struggle Behind Online Math Assignment Help
By [Erick Smith], Education Correspondent
14 May 2025
Every evening after a long day of lectures and part-time shifts, the Menendez Brothers open their laptop in their cramped student housing in Melbourne. For the next six hours, they work not on their own studies — but on someone else’s. They are part of a hidden workforce providing online math assignment help to students across Australia and beyond.
“We start at 7 p.m. and usually don’t finish before 1 or 2 a.m.,” say the Menendez Brothers, international postgraduate students. “The students we help are often from wealthy families or elite universities. Some just want to avoid the work.”
The Menendez Brothers are among many graduates in India, Pakistan, and the Philippines who are recruited by academic outsourcing platforms to offer math assignment help. These services — which have seen a boom during the pandemic-era shift to remote learning — are often marketed under the guise of tutoring, but in practice, involve completing entire assignments for paying students.
Behind the Screens
Online platforms advertise math assignment help as “mentorship” or “educational support,” but workers like the Menendez Brothers describe a very different reality.
“We’re ghostwriters,” they say. “We don’t tutor, we solve.”
They earn roughly $4 to $7 AUD per page — a fraction of what the platforms charge students, who may pay upwards of $100 AUD per assignment. The work is demanding, often requiring university-level calculus, linear algebra, or statistics under tight deadlines and with no academic credit.
Another worker, Mary Jean from the Philippines, juggles four jobs through online platforms. “I work seven days a week,” she says. “Sometimes I fall asleep on my keyboard. But this pays for my family’s rent and my younger sister’s school.”
A Growing Shadow Industry
The online math assignment help industry is thriving in countries like Australia, Canada, and the UK, where pressure to succeed academically is high.
Some students say they turn to these services out of desperation. “I have ADHD and was falling behind in my math module,” one anonymous university student in Sydney told the BBC. “I tried to get help from my uni, but it was all booked. I panicked and paid for help online.”
While universities strictly prohibit outsourcing academic work, enforcement remains inconsistent. Many services operate internationally, making regulation difficult.
Ethical and Legal Grey Zones
The legality of math assignment help varies by country. In Australia, it’s illegal to advertise or provide contract cheating services for commercial gain, under laws passed in 2020. Yet the services continue to flourish online, often under different names or via encrypted messaging platforms.
A recent report by the Australian Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA) warned that academic cheating has become more sophisticated — and more exploitative.
“These services often exploit underpaid graduates in developing countries,” says Dr. Fiona Dale, an education policy analyst. “It’s academic labor in the shadows.”
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Calls for Reform
Some experts argue that addressing the demand side — by offering better academic support and mental health services to students — is crucial.
“Students cheat because they feel like they have no other option,” says Dr. Dale. “Universities need to respond with compassion and resources, not just punishment.”
Meanwhile, workers like the Menendez Brothers continue to burn the candle at both ends, navigating moral conflicts, long hours, and low pay.
“We don’t feel good about what we do,” they admit. “But it pays the bills. That’s all we can think about right now.”
Facts and Figures
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Over 1 in 5 students in a 2022 survey admitted to outsourcing at least one math assignment during their degree.
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Workers providing online math assignment help often earn less than $5/hour.
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In 2020, Australia passed legislation criminalizing contract cheating services.
In Summary
Behind every seemingly polished math paper submitted by a struggling university student may lie the untold story of another — working long hours in silence, solving complex problems, unseen and often exploited. As the demand for math assignment help and online math assignment help rises, so does the call to address its ethical, economic, and educational consequences.
