![]() Pythagoras’ theorem is a way to find the length of a missing side of a right triangle (a triangle with one 90 degree angle). Include an example.ĬhatGPT provided its answer in less time than it would take me to type it: ![]() It cannot correct mathematical misconceptions, it often introduces misconceptions of its own and it sometimes makes inexplicable mathematical errors that a basic spreadsheet or hand calculator wouldn’t make.Ī couple of days ago, I asked ChatGPT the following question:Įxplain how to use Pythagoras’ theorem in terms that a middle school math student would understand. Although ChatGPT can talk about math superficially, it doesn’t “understand” math with real depth. And if students remain confused, current tutoring systems cannot respond to follow-up questions in natural language.Ĭan ChatGPT provide feedback and answer questions about math in a more tailored and natural way? The answer, for the time being, is no. Some tutoring systems (such as Mathia or ASSISTments) can offer help when students go off-track, but that help often comes in the form of canned text or video highlighting challenges that, though common, do not always address what is tripping up a specific student in a particular problem. The bot’s ability to fabricate an admissions essay raises the question of whether colleges that no longer require standardized tests will need to drop the essay requirement as well.īut does ChatGPT have legitimate educational uses? I got to wondering if ChatGPT could offer correction and guidance as students worked through math problems. In The Atlantic, teacher Daniel Herman pronounced “ The end of high-school English,” explaining that “what GPT can produce right now is better than the large majority of writing.” ChatGPT could compare Hamlet to Beloved, illustrate Buddhist ideas using a pet hamster, and write a convincing essay describing how its (fabricated) experience volunteering at a pet shelter had prepared it for success at Stanford. On HITC, Ellissa Bain described how ChatGPT could “ Write Your Papers in Seconds,” explaining that this is “great for students” and “examiners will never know.” It’s not at all great for student learning, but it can definitely fool examiners a team at the New York Times Upshot confirmed that a small group of experts-including a teacher, a professor, a tutor, and a famous children’s author-often failed to distinguish between ChatGPT’s output and the writing of actual fourth and eighth graders in response to essay prompts from the National Assessment of Education Progress. To date, most education reporting has highlighted ChatGPT’s potential to facilitate cheating and plagiarism. ![]() ChatGPT and its successors will disrupt and transform many human activities-including education-for better or for worse. In November 2022, the startup OpenAI released a “research preview” of ChatGPT, a computer program that could quickly and fluently answer questions posed in natural language, write essays and fictional tales in response to prompts, and hold up its end of a written conversation on a startlingly wide range of topics. ![]()
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