📚 Education Jul 17, 2026 · Eric Tucker

We’ve Been Judging Symphony Rehearsals by the Last Note: Why Multimodal AI Can Finally Measure Mathematical Practice

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Picture a sixth-grader solving a ratio problem. He sketches a table, erases it, and switches to a number line because it helps him ‘see the quantities against each other.’ His reasoning is sound, but a minor arithmetic slip ruins his final response.



Traditional tests mark this mathematical practice a zero, seeing only the final response. But an educator watching captures the student’s active sense-making, strategic representation, and productive struggle.



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