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ERIC Number: ED661134
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2024
Pages: 8
Abstractor: As Provided
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What Kind of Mathematics Teacher Is ChatGPT? Identifying the Pedagogical Practices Preferenced by Generative AI Tools When Preparing Lesson Plans
Scott Cameron; Carmel Mesiti
Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia (MERGA) (46th, Gold Coast, Australia, Jun 30-Jul 4, 2024)
In their daily work teachers are responsible for several complex tasks; might AI be harnessed to support teachers in the challenging work of planning lessons? In this paper we investigate the use of an AI tool, namely ChatGPT, to generate a lesson plan that may be of use to teachers in their planning. A carefully worded prompt, informed by research, was used to generate four lesson plans for the teaching of division of fractions to students in years 7 or 8. We analysed the plans' structures and encoded practices. AI-generated lesson plans appeared suitable for identifying "what" should be taught but lacked detail of practices that support teachers to teach meaningfully.
Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia. GPO Box 2747, Adelaide SA 5001, Australia. Tel: +61-8-8363-0288; Fax: +61-8-8362-9288; e-mail: sales@merga.net.au; Web site: http://www.merga.net.au/
Publication Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education; Grade 7; Junior High Schools; Middle Schools; Secondary Education; Grade 8
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia (MERGA)
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