This project aims to understand and improve how a model performs on a basic MultiStep Tool Use Reasoning task, focusing on basic math word problems and conditionals. The key constraint is that the ...

Math. It’s that five-letter word that still manages to haunt the dreams of both high school sophomores and overworked college students alike. Derivatives, matrices, word problems that somehow involve ...

This study investigates the performance of quantized versions of Llama 2 (7B) and Llama 3 (8B) models on simple addition and subtraction word problems. This comparison is significant as we aim to ...

New research from Vanderbilt University has found students benefit more from being taught the concepts behind math problems rather than the exact procedures to solve the problems. The findings offer ...

"You Do The Math: Explaining Basic Concepts Behind Math Problems Improves Children's Learning." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 12 April 2009. <www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2009 / 04 / ...

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Hannah Moulton teaches Algebra 1. But before her 9th graders get started on graphing linear functions or solving quadratic equations, she makes sure that they have a much more basic skill down pat.

Today’s large language models (LLMs) have moved beyond simple language tasks, demonstrating impressive in-context question-answering capabilities informed by novel user-initiated prompting techniques.