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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, J Višňovská (ed.), E Ross (ed.), S Getenet (ed.)
Surfing the waves of mathematics education. Proceedings of the 46th annual conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia | MERGA | Published : 2024
Abstract
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.