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 ...

Sometimes I forget there's a whole other world out there where AI models aren't just used for basic tasks such as simple ...

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 ...

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 ...

FrontierMath, a new benchmark from Epoch AI, challenges advanced AI systems with complex math problems, revealing how far AI still has to go before achieving true human-level reasoning.

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 ...

The scientists developed a version of the GSM8K benchmark, a set of over 8,000 grade-school math word problems that AI models are tested on. Called GSM-Symbolic, Apple tests involved making simple ...

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

Organizers of a Chinese math competition say a vocational school student who finished near the top in the first round was helped by her teacher in violation of the rules.