PBS

Match Word Problems to Visual Models

Match word problems, visual models, and expressions & equations. Warm up with a Mystery Math Mistake as you add two 2-digit numbers using a decomposition strategy. Find Which One Doesn't Belong to ...
Ars Technica

Telling AI model to “take a deep breath” causes math scores to soar in study

Google DeepMind researchers recently developed a technique to improve math ability in AI language models like ChatGPT by using other AI models to improve prompting—the written instructions that tell ...
SiliconANGLE

Google rolls out powerful creative problem-solving AI model Deep Think to the Gemini app

Google DeepMind, Alphabet Inc.’s artificial intelligence research arm, today announced the rollout of Gemini 2.5 Deep Think, a new creative problem-solving AI model. The company stated the model is ...
Ars Technica

Researchers isolate memorization from problem-solving in AI neural networks

When engineers build AI language models like GPT-5 from training data, at least two major processing features emerge: memorization (reciting exact text they’ve seen before, like famous quotes or ...
Education Week

Why Word Problems Are Such a Struggle for Students—And What Teachers Can Do

Want to learn more? Sign up for a free five-week email mini-course full of research-backed strategies to help students make sense of math. Give Cindy Cliche a math word problem, and she can tell you ...