Designing an AI Math Tutor for Children with Dyslexia, Dysgraphia, and Dyscalculia
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Dyslexia, Dysgraphia, Dyscalculia, Artificial Intelligence, Math TutorAbstract
Students who have conditions such as dyslexia, dyscalculia and dysgraphia tend to struggle with math significantly more than their peers. This study investigated how effective an AI-based math tutor, which has been shown to work well with students who do not have these conditions, is at teaching students who did. A website was designed which allows students to chat with the AI, which was named Mathias and uses GPT from OpenAI, as well as to move through pre-set topics to learn specific skills. This website was specifically targeted towards students who have dyslexia, dysgraphia, and dyscalculia, including features such as audio and images, both of which are generated using AI, as well as stylistic features geared towards students with dyslexia. The presentation and content of the responses are also geared towards students who have these conditions. To evaluate how effective Mathias is at what it is intended for, several students took part in an experiment to evaluate their improvement after using the website and after more traditional teaching. During this experiment, students improved more on average after using the website. This was especially true for the students with dyslexia, who saw higher increases after using the website than the students without dyslexia. This indicates that AI-based tutors can be very effective for these students, and more development of these programs could be very beneficial. However, further experimentation is needed to determine how accurate the results of this experiment were, as well as how to improve the AI to make it more effective.
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