AI Helps Math Teachers Build Better "Scaffolds"

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This article describes a study investigating techniques to help teachers incorporate better scaffolds in their middle school math classrooms. Scaffolding is a set of teaching practices that aim to give students access to rigorous content without lowering expectations. Specifically, the study evaluated a set of techniques used to generate warm-up activities and found that the most successful included providing an LLM with access to the original curriculum materials and a well crafted prompt.