Thursday, July 23, 2026

Math Students May Learn Less Using AI - Jill Barshay, Future-Ed

To isolate AI’s effects, the researchers compared two kinds of math problems that differ in how easily students can outsource them to AI: word problems and graphing problems. Word problems can be copied and pasted directly into AI chatbots for instant answers. Graphing problems are far more cumbersome. A student would need to upload a screenshot and still recreate the graph inside ALEKS using its tools. After ChatGPT’s launch, student behavior and performance on the two types of problems began to diverge.

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