Students often struggle to connect math with the real world. Word problems—a combination of words, numbers, and mathematical operations—can be a perfect vehicle to take abstract numbers off ...

Using LLMs as an example, these are trained on tons of data to figure out what each next word would most likely ... modern AI ...

The best way to spark a discussion about a math topic in a classroom can be unpopular with many students: solving word problems. Word problems often either come too late in a lesson or are disconn ...

A few straightforward shifts and strategies can help create math classrooms where even the most reticent learners find their ...

FrontierMath's performance results, revealed in a preprint research paper, paint a stark picture of current AI model ...

A young man lives in Manhattan near a subway express station. He is dating two women: one in Brooklyn; one in the Bronx. To visit the woman in Brooklyn he takes a train on the downtown side of the ...

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 ...

"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.

Postdoctoral researcher Salvador R. Vazquez and assistant professor Sarah Eason, both in the Purdue University Department of ...

Eleventh grade math achievement for remedial students who had taken ninth ... told me that the district selected open-ended word problems that even a student with low skills could try, but that also ...

Four years ago, Marquies Gray Jr. and his younger brother, Mason, were struggling to solve math problems. Their mother, ...