AI Tools for Math Teachers

  • MagicSchool

    MagicSchool: Math Tools

    MagicSchool is a popular and robust AI-driven teacher assistant and lesson plan generator packed with features that greatly assist math teachers in crafting lesson plans, activities, and assessments aligned with curriculum standards.

    Features: MagicSchool can help generate lesson plans, unit activities, active learning environments, or more. For math teachers, MagicSchool features a Math Spiral Review Generator, designed to provide review materials for various math topics. It's a practical tool for students preparing for exams or revisiting past topics. Another offering is the Math Story Word Problem tool. Teachers can input a problem, and the platform generates a puzzle for students, offering a different approach to understanding the concept. In addition, there is a Table Analysis Generator that leverages AI to generate a table with data of your choice with associated questions that students can analyze in an assignment.

    Price: MagicSchool offers limited free features, including lesson planning, differentiation, feedback and more. For unlimited usage and plus features the cost is $8.33/month, or$99.96 yearly.

  • Eduaide

    Eduaide: Math Tools

    Eduaide is another powerful AI-driven lesson teaching assistant and plan generator full of handy resources for Math teachers.

    Features: Eduaide’s specialized resources for math teachers include “Real World Example,” which applies mathematical concepts to practical scenarios and STEM Project tool, designed to craft STEM activities and complete with critical thinking questions and a breakdown of STEM principles.

    With Eduaide’s Content Generator, you can uncover Math resources for primary, secondary and postsecondary math classrooms. Eduaide offers Worksheet, an opportunity for students to practice math skills, and Intentional Mistakes, which prompts students to identify and revise errors.

    The Lesson Seed, which offers ideas based on objectives, is the most popular resource to start lesson planning in Eduaide. Simply select the subject and level of your students and enter a topic, or keywords. Eduaide’s AI then generates a lesson plan with an objectives, direct instruction, practice activities, and more.

    Price: Eduaide offers up to 15 generations a month. For unlimited access to all tools and resources you’ll pay $4.16/month, or $49.99/year.

  • Khanmigo

    Khanmigo: Personalized Tutoring

    Khanmigo, a product of Khan Academy, is an intelligent tutoring system designed to offer students personalized tutoring.

    Features: The Khan Academy was founded by Sal Khan, who began tutoring one of his cousins in mathematics and created short math lessons in the form of videos. The Khan Academy has since produced over 8,000 videos teaching a wide range of academic subjects.

    Khanmigo is essentially a personal tutor, capable of understanding student queries and needs, and supplying students with relevant content and exercises. Khanmigo is designed to offer feedback and motivation and can adjust educational content in real time based on a student’s performance.

    Khanmigo’s standout feature is its ability to guide students through the sequential steps or thought processes needed to solve a problem, rather than simply providing the answer. It encourages students to engage with the problem and reflect on their thinking.

    In addition to assisting students, Khanmigo also aids teachers in lesson planning by providing AI-guided strategies and offers insightful feedback on student performance.

    Pricing: An individual Khanmigo account is $9.99 a month. Contact Khanmigo to get a quote for your students. Expect to be quoted based on the size of your department or institution.

  • Sizzle

    Sizzle: Step-by-Step Tutoring

    Sizzle is a popular AI-driven learning app created by Jerome Pesenti, the former VP of AI at Meta. It offers a tailored approach to solving math equations and word problems.

    Features: Sizzle guides students through each step of a problem as a tutor chatbot and assists users in correctly solving a problem.

    The "Try a Different Approach" feature allows users to propose alternative methods for solving problems. The "Give Me Choices" option presents multiple answers, while the "Answer with a Photo" feature allows for image uploads. If you're stuck, you can ask Sizzle for a definition. Even if your handwriting is poor, Sizzle can decipher it.

    Sizzle's problem-solving capabilities also extend to subjects such as physics, chemistry, biology, and economics, accommodating learners of all levels.

    It holds a rating of 4.8 out of 5 on the App Store, signaling widespread user satisfaction​.

    Price: Sizzle is free.

  • Wolfram Alpha

    Wolfram Alpha: Computational Engine

    Wolfram Alpha is an AI-driven computational knowledge engine that offers data analysis, answers factual questions, and resolves mathematical issues.

    Features: Wolfram Alpha provides over 50,000 types of algorithms and equations. For teachers and students of physics, chemistry, and other sciences, it is an invaluable aide.

    Wolfram Alpha performs a wide range of statistical operations and can analyze and generate reports, ranging from basic calculations to complex calculus. Wolfram Alpha can provide step-by-step explanations to a wide range of math problems. It can also plot graphs for almost any mathematical function, providing visual insights into equations and their properties.

    Wolfram Alpha also provides dynamic calculators for many topics such as derivatives, integrals, limits, and matrices. In addition, it provides definitions and explanations for a vast array of mathematical terms and concepts.

    Price: Wolfram Alfa is free to use though there are paid options available.

  • ChatGPT Plus

    ChatGPT: Math Uses

    ChatGPT is a conversational chatbot from OpenAI and can be a valuable tool for both teachers and students in the teaching and learning of math.

    Features: ChatGPT can assist students with decimals and fractions, multiplication and division, pre-Algebra, Algebra, Geometry, introduction to Statistics, Trigonometry, and Calculus. For one, ChatGPT can assist in explaining complex mathematical concepts in a simplified and understandable manner. It can generate diagrams or visual aids to further enhance math understanding. Teachers can use ChatGPT to generate math problem sets for practice and provide step-by-step solutions to enhance students' problem-solving skills.

    For students, ChatGPT serves as an interactive study aid that can provide instant feedback and clarification on difficult topics. Students can use ChatGPT to check their solutions to problems and understand where they might have made mistakes. If leveraged effectively, ChatGPT can propel active learning, as students are not just passively receiving information but engaging in a dialogue about the material.

    Price: Free to use version 3.5 / $20/month for version 4.0.

  • StepWiseMath

    StepWiseMath

    StepWiseMath is an intelligent tutoring system that provides students with a personalized approach to learning math.

    Features: StepWiseMath leverages AI to interact with students, understand their questions and needs, provide them with relevant content and exercises, and give them feedback and encouragement.

    StepWiseMath brings AI to students on affordable mobile devices, giving students instant help 24×7 so they can master critical math skills.

    Teachers can leverage StepWiseMath to provide additional support to students learning math. The information produced by StepWise informs data-driven teaching and learning and offers actionable reports for teachers.

    Price: You can work through up to 10 math problems for free. An individual student account is $9.99/month.

    Contact StepWise Math for school pricing.

  • Eduten

    Eduten: Digital Math

    Eduten is a digital math platform from Finland designed for grades K-12 and beyond. Developed by one of Finland’s top universities, Eduten has spread to over 50 countries worldwide and is used by more than 1 million students.

    Features: Created by teachers, for teachers, Eduten is based on Finnish pedagogy and is adaptable to any curriculum worldwide. It leverages gamification and is designed to keep students intrinsically motivated. Eduten’s program includes hundreds of high-quality tasks for students to build and improve their math skills. Eduten’s content library includes more than 200,000 gamified and varied tasks.

    Eduten provides insightful learning analytics, useful differentiation, effective gamification, lesson planning support, and easy curriculum customization. Studies reportedly show that using Eduten, students solve up to 8 times more tasks compared to pen and paper.

    Pricing: Free four-week trial at your school. Contact Eduten for school pricing.

  • Duolingo Math

    Duolingo Math

    In 2023 Duolingo, the world’s most popular learning app, launched Duolingo Math, aimed at personalizing Math learning.

    Features: Duolingo Math follows what has made the Duolingo language learning app so successful: short, interactive exercises, AI personalization, and a fun, but challenging, atmosphere.

    Duolingo Math offers bite-sized lessons and a gamified atmosphere to make math learning fun. Users can opt for beginner math, covering foundational topics, or intermediate math, emphasizing practical skills with more intricate exercises.

    Reviews of Duolingo Math have been generally positive. Users have praised it for its fun and interactive way of learning math. (I agree with that view!) However, some users have noted that the material can be a bit easy for middle schoolers or high schoolers, suggesting that more advanced content could be added in the future.

    Price: Free with ads; paid options eliminate ads and add features.

  • Maths.ai

    Maths.ai: Personal Tutoring

    Maths.ai is an AI-powered platform designed to make math “cool” and assist with a wide range of mathematical problems.

    Features: Maths.ai leverages AI to provide step-by-step solutions and offers explanations and relevant formulas in the process of solving mathematical problems.

    Math.ai is accurate and efficient and, if leveraged effectively, can be a valuable learning aid that can enhance student understanding and mathematics. It can help alleviate anxiety and discouragement when solving math problems. But some students may see it as way to get answers quickly. So Maths.ai should likely be used only as a supplement to principal learning methods.

    Price: Free, but in beta with a waitlist

  • eSpark: Playful K-5 Math

    eSpark uses generative AI to create differentiated and personalized supplemental curriculum resources for K-5 math and reading.

    Features: eSpark activities are “playful” standards-based games, videos, and other interactive math and reading activities. eSpark leverages AI to tailor individual lessons to each students’ personal backgrounds and interests.

    eSpark has typically received high online ratings from teachers though some express a desire for deeper content.

    Price: Contact eSpark for institution pricing.

  • Squirrel AI

    Squirrel AI: Adaptive Tutoring

    Squirrel Ai Learning is a Chinese K12 edtech company specializing in intelligent adaptive education. It provides a personalized learning plan and one-on-one tutoring in Math, and other subjects.

    Features: Squirrel AI uses generative AI to customize lessons and practice problems based on each student’s unique learning profile. It breaks down a subject into the smallest possible conceptual pieces. Middle school math, for example, is subdivided into over 10,000 atomic elements, with the goal to identify gaps in understanding as precisely as possible.

    Squirrel AI has research agreements with well-regarded institutions such as Carnegie Mellon University and UC-Berkeley etc.

    Price: Contact Squirrel AI for institution pricing.

  • Chatmind

    Chatmind: Visualize Connections

    ChatMind is an innovative AI-powered mind mapping tool designed to streamline and enhance your brainstorming and project management experience.

    Features: Chatmind transforms your questions, articles, or data into a comprehensive mind map with just a click. The tool offers context rewriting and dialogue expansion features, allowing for a more in-depth exploration of ideas. It also provides functionalities for framework sorting, brainstorming, project management, schedule arrangement, and note-taking, making it a versatile tool for various tasks.

    Math students can greatly benefit from ChatMind. The tool’s dialogue expansion feature can help explain complex mathematical formulas and equations in a step-by-step manner, aiding in comprehension. Moreover, the mind maps can help visualize mathematical concepts and their relationships, making abstract mathematical ideas more tangible. The tool can also assist in organizing and structuring mathematical proofs, making them easier to understand and follow.

    Moreover, the bookmarking feature allows students to save important URLs for later reference, facilitating efficient study and research.

    Price: One Free credit a month. Basic account is $7.99/month

  • Elicit AI: Simplify Research

    Elicit AI

    Elicit AI is an advanced research assistant that leverages Large Language Models (LLMs) to automate research workflows. It is designed to help users navigate and understand relevant research articles in-depth.

    Features: Elicit AI can find pertinent math papers without relying on exact keyword matches and extract key information from these papers to answer user’s questions. It also synthesizes evidence and arguments, designs research plans, and evaluates interventions.

    One standout feature is how Elicit helps you extract intricate details and organize them into a clear table, simplifying the analysis.

    For upper-level math students, Elicit can help students navigate and understand complex mathematical research papers, extracting key information and answering questions about mathematical concepts, theories, and proofs. The tool’s ability to design research plans can also aid students in planning and executing their math projects or assignments. Moreover, Elicit AI’s intervention evaluation feature can help students understand the practical applications of mathematical concepts.

    Price: Try for free and receive 5,000 credits. Basic account is $10/month, which includes 12,000 credits a month.

  • MathGPTPro

    MathGPTPro

    MathGPTPro is an advanced AI-powered math tutor designed to offer swift and interactive solutions to math problems and facilitate a “progressive” learning experience.

    Features: MathGPTPro is aimed at simplifying complex math challenges. Its key features include a user-friendly interface, AI-powered guidance for navigating through problems, and interactive exercises that promote an engaging learning environment.

    MathGPTPro supports a wide array of mathematical topics, offering detailed, step-by-step solutions to enhance comprehension and problem-solving skills​​​​.

    The platform stands out for its ability to bridge the gap between mathematical complexity and accessibility, harnessing the synergy of AI and mathematical expertise. Users can expect support in various areas such as equations, optimization problems, and more, tailored to their specific needs.

    MathGPTPro's approach to interactive learning, coupled with its customizable calculations and offline access, positions it as a comprehensive tool for anyone looking to deepen their understanding of mathematics or tackle advanced problems with confidence and precision.

    Price: Free for up to 10 tries. Basic account offers unlimited unlimited usage at $8.99/month.

Tom’s Tips:

1.AI and Complex Math

Complex Math has been challenging for AI, but Google’s Alpha Geometry is now capable of solving geometry problems at the level of an International International Mathematical Olympiad gold medalist. And the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) expects that AI will soon master its international assessment of adults' numeracy and problem solving skills. In all, AI can increasingly master math content with human-like reasoning skills, so the focus for teachers must be on how to teach mathematical thinking.

2. AI and Problem Solving

AI tools can solve math problems and provide the correct steps, but they don’t always help students with the process of mathematical thinking. That said, some AI tools are getting better at prompting students to think through mathematical problems and don’t quickly divulge the answer to a math problem. Khanmigo and Sizzle are two examples of AI tools that attempt to guide students through each step of a math problem and help them persevere. Though not perfect, AI is improving quickly in this regard.

3. Personalized Tutoring

One of the greatest potential uses of AI is personalized tutoring. There is much hope that large language models such as GPT can serve as scalable, personalized tutors in mathematics and other subjects. One recent study found that LLM-based explanations of math problems “positively impacted learning” relative to seeing only correct answers. Teachers can leverage AI to help students understand mathematical concepts, and even create mathematical models, processes that are crucial to nurturing mathematical thinking.