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CharlesLautoday at 5:25 AM2 repliesview on HN

Is the assessment system of undergraduate mathematics education no longer effective?


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margalabargalatoday at 5:27 AM

Undergraduate? No. We've had calculators able to solve undergraduate problems for decades. AI doesn't change the need to understand how calculus works any more than calculators did. The foundations remain valuable.

Graduate? Yes.

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dyauspitrtoday at 6:01 AM

I don’t think it’s just mathematics. We don’t hear enough about this, but if I think back to my undergraduate years, which were less than 10 years ago, every homework assignment and every take-home exam I had would be trivial for LLMs to solve at this point I wonder what is actually happening on the ground.

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