A team of math and AI researchers at Microsoft Asia has designed and developed a small language model (SLM) that can be used to solve math problems. The group has posted a paper on the arXiv preprint ...

Researchers also gave children a math test and found that children who scored higher tended to have parents who talked about math more during the observation period.

Parents, guardians and other community members are being recruited and trained as math tutors for students who have fallen behind.

Inviting teachers to set the professional learning agenda "shouldn't be radical," said one of the project's leads.