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I have spent 4 years working on nothing but studying how to teach students to write algebra expressions given a word problem. This task is very important since a student can't make any use of all the ...

We propose a new evaluation for automatic solvers for algebra word problems, which can identify mistakes that existing evaluations overlook. Our proposal is to evaluate such solvers using derivations, ...

Abstract: To provide the step by step tutoring service like a human tutor, an intelligent tutoring system (ITS) for math word problem solving (MathITS) is proposed in this paper. The proposed MathITS ...

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This paper reviews the research literature with respect to the contributions to the students’ difficulties in their algebra learning in order to understand the students’ difficulties in algebra ...