Fifth Grader's Math Homework Leaves Kid in Tears and Both Parents 'Stumped'
"We let him work on it a bit before we recognized his deep breaths as he was getting stressed and starting to tear up," Patrick and Kitty told Newsweek.
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Word Problems Get a Bad Rap in Math Class. Here’s How to Get Them Right
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.
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Here’s How All Students Can Learn to Enjoy Word Problems
In classrooms with mixed abilities, students reading a word problem out loud in groups can help, said David Dai, an 8th and 9th grade math instructor at the Barton Academy for Advanced World ...
TechRadar27d
Apple’s latest study proves that AI can’t even solve basic grade-school math problems
The researchers started with the GSM8K's standardized set of 8,000 grade-school level mathematics word problems ... drop between 0.3 percent and 9.2 percent. In contrast, the second set (which ...
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What the Research Says About Mixed-Ability Algebra Class
In the fall of 2019, four high schools in a San Francisco Bay Area district shook up many of their ninth grade math classes. Students had traditionally ... told me that the district selected ...
The Hechinger Report on MSN8d
Thrown into the deep end of algebra
In the fall of 2019, four high schools in a San Francisco Bay Area district shook up many of their ninth grade math classes. Students had traditionally been separated into more than five math courses ...
Slate on MSN8d
It’s Teens’ New Favorite Word. It’s Everywhere. Maybe You Should Start Using It Too.
Teens are taking slang from the screen to the schoolyard. It’s reshaping the way that they connect with each other and the ...
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CEO Challenges Job Applicants With 3-Second Brain Teaser During Interviews
Since the post's upload, it has received over 2.8k likes and generated more than ... asked of me in interviews amounted to 3rd grade math problems." The third user wrote, "I can't believe I ...
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This Apple AI study suggests ChatGPT and other chatbots can’t actually reason
The scientists developed a version of the GSM8K benchmark, a set of over 8,000 grade-school math word problems that AI models ... with GPT-4o dropping from 95.2% accuracy in GSM9K to 94.9% in ...
Quanta Magazine29d
Big Advance on Simple-Sounding Math Problem Was a Century in the Making
On the November morning when Pasten was supposed to be writing his exam, the n 2 + 1 problem represented escape in more ways than one. Earlier that year, his father had died, and Pasten found himself ...
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Detroit Pistons' second loss shows the first problem they've yet to fix: Turnovers
They turned the ball over 22 times in a 113-101 road loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers, which dropped them to 0-2 this season. The Pistons were bottom-five in turnover percentage last season ...