Show threadDoug HoltonMar 8
* The Aftermath of DrawEduMath: Vision Language Models Underperform with Struggling Students and Misdiagnose Errors
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.00925
* Benchmarking the Pedagogical Knowledge of Large Language Models
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18710v1
https://www.fab-ai.org/initiatives/ai-for-education/edtech-quality/resources/benchmarks/about-the-pedagogy-benchmark
* AI‑generated lesson plans fall short on inspiring students and promoting critical thinking
https://theconversation.com/ai-generated-lesson-plans-fall-short-on-inspiring-students-and-promoting-critical-thinking-265355
#AIEd #mathed #teaching #education
The Aftermath of DrawEduMath: Vision Language Models Underperform with Struggling Students and Misdiagnose Errors

Effective mathematics education requires identifying and responding to students' mistakes. For AI to support pedagogical applications, models must perform well across different levels of student proficiency. Our work provides an extensive, year-long snapshot of how 11 vision-language models (VLMs) perform on DrawEduMath, a QA benchmark involving real students' handwritten, hand-drawn responses to math problems. We find that models' weaknesses concentrate on a core component of math education: student error. All evaluated VLMs underperform when describing work from students who require more pedagogical help, and across all QA, they struggle the most on questions related to assessing student error. Thus, while VLMs may be optimized to be math problem solving experts, our results suggest that they require alternative development incentives to adequately support educational use cases.

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foldworksMar 5

Mathematics Teaching 299 now available online https://atm.org.uk/Mathematics-Teaching-Journal-Archive/177734

Design by me

Five free articles for non-members:

Increasing access for a student teacher with a visual impairment
Zahara Hussain, Emily Thouless, René Hartmann and Helen Thouless explore Zahara’s experiences as a student with a visual impairment on Core Mathematics modules during an undergraduate primary education course.

Computational mathematics
Allen Tsui shares some activities for learners aged 8 to 16 to apply mathematics when learning about programming.

Introducing Multicolour Maths
Brook Tate shares his love of mathematical relationships expressed in colour.

Fixing the mathematics transition from primary to secondary
Tom Manners suggests some ways of improving the transition from Key Stage 2 to 3.

Barbara Jaworski (1944–2025)
Peter Gates, Anne Watson and Dave Hewitt remember Barbara Jaworski’s contribution to mathematics education.

#MathematicsTeaching #iTeachMath #MathEd #MathsEd #Math #Mathematics #teaching #pedagogy #didactics #education #design #GraphicDesign #AMiE #MT #MT299

HenriMar 4

Guest blog post by Prof. Amanda Cangelosi: Two Math Education Books. She argues that my There Is No One Way to Teach Math complements Liljedahl's Building Thinking Classrooms.

https://blog.mathed.page/2026/03/03/two-math-education-books/

#mtbos #iteachmath #mathed

HenriMar 4

Possibly useful for π day

Circle area (animation)
https://www.mathed.page/constructions/pi/index.html

Leonardo's Areas
https://www.mathed.page/puzzles/polyarcs/leonardo.pdf

π for regular polygons?
https://www.mathed.page/geometry-labs/polygon-pi/index.html

Taxicab π:
https://www.mathed.page/geometry-labs/labs/taxicab-geometry.pdf

#mtbos #iteachmath #mathed

Pi | www.MathEd.page

A visual justification of the formula for area of a circle

Karen CampeMar 1

The March Calendar of Problems is here! Enjoy some #ProblemSolving yourself or with students. Let us know your thoughts & working-out here or on post.

#MTBoS #iTeachMath #T3Learns #RecreationalMath #MathChat #ClassroomMath #MathEd #MathsEdChat

https://karendcampe.wordpress.com/2026/03/01/march-calendar-problems-4/

March Calendar Problems

It is March, and spring can’t come quickly enough for my friends in the northeast US. No matter what the weather, I have the March 2001 Calendar of Problems from 25 years ago for your problem…

Reflections and Tangents
Karen CampeFeb 26

New blog post! "Reflecting on 10 Years of 'Reflections and Tangents' "

Catch up on 10 years of #math and #MathEd posts & consider subscribing so you never miss a new one!
#MTBoS #iTeachMath #T3Learns #ClassroomMath

https://karendcampe.wordpress.com/2026/02/26/reflecting-on-10-years-of-reflections-tangents/

Reflecting on 10 Years of “Reflections & Tangents”

It’s been ten years since I started writing here on the “Reflections and Tangents” blog, so I think it’s a good time to reflect on how I got here and how it’s going. I came late to blogging, compar…

Reflections and Tangents
Karen CampeFeb 1

Time for winter #ProblemSolving! Here's the February Calendar of Problems for you and your students.

Tell us your working out here or on the post. ENJOY!
#MTBoS #iTeachMath #RecreationalMath #MathEd #MathsEdChat #MathsToday #T3Learns #ClassroomMath

https://karendcampe.wordpress.com/2026/02/01/february-calendar-problems-4/

February Calendar Problems

February is here and if you need a distraction from winter ❄️ weather, I have the February 2016 Calendar of Problems from 10 years ago for your wintertime problem solving enjoyment. I have a few mo…

Reflections and Tangents
Karen CampeJan 31

Solutions to the January #ProblemSolving Calendar are posted! Stay tuned for February calendar coming tomorrow...

#RecreationalMath #ClassroomMath #MTBoS #iTeachMath #MathEd #MathsEdChat #MathsToday

https://karendcampe.wordpress.com/2026/01/01/january-calendar-problems-4/

January Calendar Problems

Happy New Year and welcome to 2026! Here is the January 1998 Calendar of Problems from 28 years ago for some wintertime problem solving enjoyment. I have a few more old Mathematics Teacher1&nb…

Reflections and Tangents
Patrick HonnerJan 30

Steven Strogatz's "Infinite Powers" is excellent!

https://www.stevenstrogatz.com/books/infinite-powers

#math #mathed #calculus

Infinite Powers — Steven Strogatz

A brilliant and endlessly appealing explanation of calculus—how it works and why it makes our lives immeasurably better. Without calculus, we wouldn’t have cell phones, TV, GPS, or ultrasound. We wouldn’t have unraveled DNA or discovered Neptune or figured out how to put 5,000 songs in your pocket.

Steven Strogatz
Patrick HonnerJan 29
Short, interesting case study in how AI "fakes proofs": https://tomaszmachnik.pl/case-study-math-en.html

#math #MathEd #AI
Case Study: Creative Math - Faking the Proof | Tomasz Machnik