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Can an AI tutor help students improve at math?
As schools contend with rapid developments in artificial intelligence, new research from the University of Toronto Mississauga suggests an AI tutor could help students with math, but only if it holds back answers and coaches them through…
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The findings come amid a global conversation about whether AI helps or harms learning. In a field where little research has been done so far, a team led by UTM economics professor Philip Oreopoulos conducted a rigorous experiment involving more than 6,000 middle school math students in Tennessee to determine under what conditions AI tutors could be beneficial.
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