Slow Math: Kids May Learn More When AI Makes Them Review Mistakes
Insights from FOS Affiliate Philip Oreopoulos and co-authors, featured in The Hechinger Report, illuminating how AI tutoring combined with mastery learning can help students learn from mistakes and improve math performance.
In an experiment involving more than 6,000 middle schoolers in Tennessee, students learned slightly more math when an AI tutor walked them through their mistakes and then required them to demonstrate the same skill correctly three times in a row before moving on.