to make word problems more approachable, said Kevin Dykema, the immediate past president of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics and an 8th grade math teacher in Mattawan, Michigan.

The researchers started with the GSM8K's standardized set of 8,000 grade-school level mathematics word problems ... And when an AI cannot perform simple math because the words are essentially ...

“The Love Math Journal is one of the resources that I created with a co-author of mine, a math professor from California," ...

Only about 53% of local public school students are considered proficient in math, according to last school year’s state test ...

Areas of pure math such as algebra, analysis, combinatorics and many others can be used—in some cases combined—to solve the complex math problems arising from applications of math to the real ...

Emily Illig, a 4th and 5th grade math teacher in Chicago schools ... diagramming sentences—a skill that can help them parse word problems. “If you’re not a native speaker, you’re a ...

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Preschool teacher Emily Johnson counts the row of green bear figurines Mayeda Alan, 4, has set on a table at the George ...

The chatbot is bad at math. And it's not unique among AI in this regard. Anthropic's Claude can't solve basic word problems. Gemini fails to understand quadratic equations. And Meta's Llama struggles ...

Deng thinks that the progress indicates that at least some types of math problems — multiplication problems being one of them — will eventually be “fully solved” by ChatGPT-like systems.