University students preferred an interactive Socratic, multiple-choice LLM math tutor over step-by-step explanations for difficult problems, but not for easy ones, and the effect was only statistically significant for GPT-4o and the MATH dataset.
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Findings of MEGA: Maths Explanation with LLMs using the Socratic Method for Active Learning
University students preferred an interactive Socratic, multiple-choice LLM math tutor over step-by-step explanations for difficult problems, but not for easy ones, and the effect was only statistically significant for GPT-4o and the MATH dataset.