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A key instructional shift called for by the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics is the dual emphasis on conceptual understanding and procedural fluency. NCTM draws a connection between these ...

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Abstract: With the rapid development of artificial intelligence (Al) technology, machine understanding math word problems (MWPs) has received growing attention. However, existing methods of automatic ...