Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated the ability to generate formative feedback and instructional hints in English, making them increasingly relevant for AI-assisted education. However, their ability to provide effective instructional support across different languages, especially for mathematically grounded reasoning tasks, remains largely unexamined. In this work, we present the first large-scale simulation of multilingual tutor-student interactions using LLMs. A stronger model plays the role of the tutor, generating feedback in the form of hints, while a weaker model simulates the student. We explore 352 experimental settings across 11 typologically diverse languages, four state-of-the-art LLMs, and multiple prompting strategies to assess whether language-specific feedback leads to measurable learning gains. Our study examines how student input language, teacher feedback language, model choice, and language resource level jointly influence performance. Results show that multilingual hints can significantly improve learning outcomes, particularly in low-resource languages when feedback is aligned with the student's native language. These findings offer practical insights for developing multilingual, LLM-based educational tools that are both effective and inclusive.
One Size doesn't Fit All: A Personalized Conversational Tutoring Agent for Mathematics Instruction
School of Computer Science, Wuhan University(武汉大学计算机学院);DAMO Academy, Alibaba Group(阿里巴巴达摩院);College of Computer and Cyber Security, Hebei Normal University(河北师范大学计算机与网络空间安全学院)
针对数学教学中学习者差异被忽视的问题,本文提出 PACE 个性化对话辅导智能体,结合学习风格画像、苏格拉底式反馈与个性化训练,提升教学适应性和学习效果。
MathDial: A Dialogue Tutoring Dataset with Rich Pedagogical Properties Grounded in Math Reasoning Problems
ETH AI Center(苏黎世联邦理工学院人工智能中心);ETH Zurich(苏黎世联邦理工学院);TU Darmstadt(达姆施塔特工业大学);Hessian Center for AI (hessian.AI)(黑森人工智能中心);National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University(南洋理工大学国立教育学院)
AFRILANGTUTOR: Advancing Language Tutoring and Culture Education in Low-Resource Languages with Large Language Models
Instituto Politécnico Nacional(墨西哥政治技术学院);University of South Florida(佛罗里达州立大学);Saarland University(萨尔兰大学);Imperial College London(伦敦帝国理工学院);University of Hamburg(汉堡大学)
LLMs Are Already Good Tutors: Training-Free Prompt Optimization for Pedagogical Math Tutoring
Korea University Sejong Campus(韩国大学世宗校区);Gyeonggi Institute of Education(京畿教育学院);Indiana University Bloomington(印第安纳大学布卢明顿分校);Opentutorials;Chosun University(全州大学);Korea University Korean Studies Center(韩国大学韩学研究中心)
MathTutorBench: A Benchmark for Measuring Open-ended Pedagogical Capabilities of LLM Tutors
Department of Computer Science, ETH Zurich(苏黎世联邦理工学院计算机科学系);ETH AI Center(ETH人工智能中心);Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab (UKP Lab), Department of Computer Science, Technical University of Darmstadt and National Research Center for Applied Cybersecurity ATHENE, Germany(达姆施塔特技术大学计算机科学系);Professorship for Learning Sciences and Higher Education, ETH Zurich(苏黎世联邦理工学院学习科学与高等教育教授职位)
SafeTutors: Benchmarking Pedagogical Safety in AI Tutoring Systems
Eindhoven University of Technology(埃因霍温理工大学);Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur(印度理工学院Khargpur分校);Cisco Research(思科研究);Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv(塔拉斯·谢甫琴科基辅国立大学);National Technical University of Ukraine(乌克兰国家技术大学);New York University(纽约大学)
Towards the Pedagogical Steering of Large Language Models for Tutoring: A Case Study with Modeling Productive Failure
ETH Zurich(苏黎世联邦理工学院);École polytechnique(巴黎综合理工学院);ETH AI Center(苏黎世联邦理工学院AI中心);Professorship for Learning Sciences and Higher Education, ETH Zurich(苏黎世联邦理工学院学习科学与高等教育教授席位)
Google Research(谷歌研究院);Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago(芝加哥丰田技术研究所);Stanford University(斯坦福大学);Dartmouth College(达特茅斯学院)
We evaluate the reasoning abilities of large language models in multilingual settings. We introduce the Multilingual Grade School Math (MGSM) benchmark, by manually translating 250 grade-school math problems from the GSM8K dataset (Cobbe et al., 2021) into ten typologically diverse languages. We find that the ability to solve MGSM problems via chain-of-thought prompting emerges with increasing model scale, and that models have strikingly strong multilingual reasoning abilities, even in underrepresented languages such as Bengali and Swahili. Finally, we show that the multilingual reasoning abil…
Investigating the interaction of linguistic and mathematical reasoning in language models using multilingual number puzzles
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University(哈佛大学工程与应用科学学院);Department of Linguistics, Harvard University(哈佛大学语言学系);Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence at Harvard University(哈佛大学凯普纳自然与人工智能研究 institute)
MGSM-Pro: A Simple Strategy for Robust Multilingual Mathematical Reasoning Evaluation
McGill University(麦吉尔大学);Mila-Quebec AI Institute(蒙特利尔AI研究院);University of Toronto(多伦多大学);Masakhane;Hanyang University(翰阳大学);Instituto Politécnico Nacional(国家理工学院);Umbaji;University of Ibadan(伊巴德安大学);McPherson University(麦菲逊大学);Canada CIFAR AI Chair(加拿大CIFAR人工智能主席)
MathMist: A Parallel Multilingual Benchmark Dataset for Mathematical Problem Solving and Reasoning
BRAC University(布拉克大学);United International University(国际联合大学);Qatar Computing Research Institute(卡塔尔计算研究所);Center for Computational & Data Sciences, Independent University, Bangladesh(计算与数据科学中心,独立大学,孟加拉国);Amazon GenAI(亚马逊生成人工智能);University of Virginia(弗吉尼亚大学)
MMATH: A Multilingual Benchmark for Mathematical Reasoning
Gaoling School of Artificial Intelligence, Renmin University of China(中国人民大学首都人工智能学院);iFLYTEK Research (Central China), iFLYTEK Co., Ltd.(iFLYTEK中央研究院、iFLYTEK有限公司)
MultiLingPoT: Enhancing Mathematical Reasoning with Multilingual Program Fine-tuning
Fudan University(复旦大学);MYbank, Ant Group(蚂蚁集团MYbank);School of Computer Science, Fudan University(复旦大学计算机学院);School of Data Science, Fudan University(复旦大学数据科学学院)
Learn Globally, Speak Locally: Bridging the Gaps in Multilingual Reasoning
Massachusetts Institute of Technology(麻省理工学院);Havard Univeristy(哈佛大学);LG CNS;Université de Montréal(蒙特利尔大学);Mila(米拉研究所);Google(谷歌);Stanford University(斯坦福大学)