Adding one irrelevant sentence to math problems causes AI systems to make confident mistakes over 300 percent more.

Abstract: Computer-assisted instruction systems have been broadly applied to help students solving math word problems. However, these systems offer little help to students encountering multi-step ...

A multi-school campus that includes four schools is to remain closed until next week due to problems with heating. East Ayrshire Council announced earlier that the Robert Burns Academy based at the ...

Large reasoning models often show counterintuitive behavior, putting more computational effort into simple tasks than difficult ones while producing worse results overall. Researchers have established ...

A seemingly easy-looking math sum has left people scratching their heads as it proves to be more challenging than anticipated. The brain teaser, was shared this week on X by user @BholanathDutta and ...

GSM8K-V is a purely visual multi-image mathematical reasoning benchmark that systematically maps each GSM8K math word problem into its visual counterpart to enable a clean, within-item comparison ...

Hannah Cairo is in the first year of her mathematics graduate program at the University of Maryland. Like her peers, she does research and is a TA on campus. But unlike most Ph.D. students, Cairo is ...

For elementary students, math problem-solving often feels like a puzzle without all the pieces. They know there’s a solution somewhere, but they can’t quite see how it all fits together. Behind every ...

OAKLAND — First he was charged in Alameda County with being part of a burglary crew that hit dozens of East Bay businesses, but now 22-year-old Nathaniel Porter has a federal gun case to deal with.

The reading and math scores of 12th graders have plunged to their lowest level in over 20 years. The scores, part of a test from the National Assessment of Education Progress, showed the average ...