Information Technology and Computer Application Engineering – Liu, Sung & Yao (Eds)
© 2014 Taylor & Francis Group, London, ISBN 978-1-138-00079-7
A novel approach of providing feedbacks at where a mistake occurs
during solving math word problems
Yan Zhen Qu & Kyle Morton
Colorado Technical University, Colorado Springs, USA
ABSTRACT: Not having the proper help to pinpointing where the mistake occurred in solving math word
problems can be frustrating for many students. In this paper we propose an interactive user input sensitive
feedback model to assists students solving math word problems based on their own thinking pattern. This model
uses fuzzy logic as a method to evaluate a user’s input to determine if an input for each step towards a solution