The utility function measures a consumer’s preference for goods or services in terms of satisfaction. Learn how to calculate it and why it’s important to economists and businesses.

But word problems can also be used in the opposite direction, to see if students can apply their understanding of equations they’ve learned to real-world situations, McNeil said.

If students spend all their time trying to understand the words or the context of a problem, they’ll struggle to understand which mathematical function to pick. But making word problems too ...

Google's latest AI model, called the Pathways Language Model, uses chain-of-thought prompting to learn how to solve problems, the company announced at its Google I/O 2022 event Wednesday.