Elementary Math QA

A BIG-bench task of MathQA-derived word problems, offered five ways (no hint, a natural-language hint, a raw operation-sequence hint, or the hints alone) to isolate where models fail.

Also known as: Math Word Problems with Hints

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Categorymath
SubcategoryBIG-bench multiple-choice math word problems, with or without an arithmetic/language hint (5 subtasks)
Page statussuperseded
Metricmultiple_choice_grade
Directionhigher_is_better
Unit%
Dataset size7688
Dataset licenceApache-2.0, inherited from the BIG-bench repository as a whole

What it measures

Elementary Math QA asks a model to answer a multiple-choice arithmetic word problem drawn from the MathQA dataset. It is split into five subtasks over the same underlying 7,688 problems: question_only (just the problem), question_with_mathematical_hint and question_with_language_hint (the problem plus the correct operation sequence, given either as a formal expression or spelled out in English), and mathematical_hint_only / language_hint_only (just the hint, no problem text) -- letting a reported score separate genuine word-problem comprehension from a model's ability to execute an already-given arithmetic plan.

Task format

Multiple-choice question, mostly five options (97.6% of items in the question_only subtask, the remainder three to ten) scored with BIG-bench's `multiple_choice_grade` metric, which ranks the labelled options by model-assigned likelihood.

Models reporting this benchmark

No model card in ModelSpec reports this benchmark yet.

Data

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