Word Problem Helper

Many disabled students struggle with tying words with concrete concepts in math. This app is a prototype to aid students in gaining the skillset to accurately parse word problems and solve them.

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Inspiration

The inspiration behind this project was our dear friend Jessica. She has a disability called Auditory Processing Disorder (APD) which makes it especially difficult for her to process numbers in math class as well as correctly evaluate the concepts needed to solve a word problem. This app seeks to streamline the process of solving word problems and provides as many examples as needed to learn the concepts.

What it does

Algorithmically generates new statistics word problems in a specified topic. It also provides two modes of usage. The practice mode provides a structured walkthrough from parsing the contents of the word problem to completing the intermmediate steps to finally solving the problem. The quiz mode allows students more confident in the subject to directly test themselves without the walkthrough steps.

How we built it

We built most of the user interface using React modules and Node.js. The generation of prompts is done through a Llama model, which is a open source text generation tool by Meta. The two parts were integrated together to form the final app.

Challenges we ran into

There were significant hurdles in every step of the process. Most notably our project required skillsets none of our team members have equipped. A lot of time was spent grappling with unfamiliar technology, languages, and coding environments.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We're very proud that we have made significant progress despite learning most of the technologies required in under 24 hours. We hope that our app can be a way for not only our friend to learn math more smoothly, but also other college students in statistics.

What we learned

We've definitely that coming up with unique projects that are executable in such a short amount of time was really hard. There were also many skills in coding that we learned today. For example, how to use gihub desktop, working with more complex UI/UX design elements, as well as how to connect ai software with the front end of our code.

What's next for Word Problem Helper

Our next goal is to implement a solver which will allow users to input a word problem and the tool will generate a step by step walkthrough of the problem. Beyond that there are also many different types of stats problems that we would like to add to the app to help ourselves in our own learning. Eventually other types of challenging word problems can be added to make the lives of not just college students but all math students' lives easier.

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