{"id":8121,"date":"2023-11-19T16:35:58","date_gmt":"2023-11-20T00:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/?p=8121"},"modified":"2023-12-24T23:39:04","modified_gmt":"2023-12-25T07:39:04","slug":"codebreaker-helps-with-math","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/2023\/11\/19\/codebreaker-helps-with-math\/","title":{"rendered":"CodeBreaker’s Byte Helps with Math!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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After asking Bing Chat<\/a> and Wolfram Alpha<\/a> for help with some pretty basic 5th and 6th grade Math problems I was disappointed with the results<\/a>. I still have this feeling that I did something wrong but I can’t spot it if I did. So when I got introduced to an AI chatbot for kids, even kids under 13 years of age, Byte<\/a>, I had to try it out for Math! When I tried asking Bing and Wolfram for help I used two problems, one from our 5th grade Bridges curriculum<\/a>, and the other from a 6th grade question I found either on a test or some website that I used in class with my 6th graders. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s how Byte responded to the same two problems: <\/h3>\n\n\n
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Asked CodeBreaker the same question I asked Bing Chat and Wolfram Alpha. First response was similar.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Here Byte did what Bing and Wolfram, solve the problem for me. I had to keep prompting and asking for more specific help to get Byte to show me or teach me how to multiply 72 times 9 if I didn’t already know how to do that.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Clarified to CodeBreaker that I needed it to show me how to multiply and it showed a good strategy!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

This time I actually got a response that was quite helpful! That is a good strategy and it’s a strategy taught in the Bridges Math curriculum<\/a> and one of the strategies that Pam Harris uses in her Math is Figureoutable workshops<\/a>! Success! So I tried the percent problem: <\/p>\n\n\n

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Asked CodeBreaker to help solve another Math problem and this first response did now show me how to do it myself so it did not teach.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

It started out as before, pretty much doing the work for me. So I asked Byte to show me how it used an understanding of place value to figure out that 25% of 60 is 15:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I asked CodeBreaker to explain how it solved the Math problem. This is a better response but I wanted more explanation. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I got a better explanation but I kept prompting it to help me understand the place value concept involved in moving the decimal point. Kids would not prompt this much or keep asking for more explanations so I will have to model this.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Asking CodeBreaker for more support, more help, resulted in a response that led it to think it was wrong in the previous response when it was not. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

This time I confused Byte! Byte, like ChatGPT, believed that it was incorrect in what it told me before. I had to tell it that it was not incorrect, I just needed an explanation of the place value change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That helped and I got a much better explanation!<\/p>\n\n\n

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I needed to ask a more specific question to get CodeBreaker to help me understand multiplication by a decimal and whole number.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

This time Byte explained the decimal moving in more detail and connected decimal moving to multiplying by 10, 100, 100, and so on! Byte has promise! Now I have not had a reason to ask students to consult an AI during Math but seeing how Byte works, I might show them that if they get stuck and I’m busy helping someone else, this might be a good next step. Ask three before me can include Byte! <\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Aside from Byte, I also found Mizou a good alternative<\/a>!<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After asking Bing Chat and Wolfram Alpha for help with some pretty basic 5th and 6th grade Math problems I was disappointed with the results. I still have this feeling that I did something wrong but I can’t spot it if I did. So when I got introduced to an AI chatbot for kids, even … <\/p>\n

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