Persona Problem Builder (PPB)

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Evidence · 2 claims (2 for) · 1 study (1 design), q2 · 0 of 1 report an effect size · 2 claims rest on one study

Description

A React and Flask web-based platform developed by Walkington et al. that uses GPT-4o to generate topic-aligned personalized mathematics problems for integration with ASSISTments.

Components

• Persona Problem Builder (PPB) web-based platform: The Persona Problem Builder is a web-based platform developed using React for frontend code and Flask API for the backend, with GPT-4o underlying the system and leveraging its math reasoning capabilities. It is hosted on an EC2 instance and designed to integrate with ASSISTments, an online homework system. A teacher provides an ASSISTments problem ID and a topic, and the system generates a personalized version of the problem using a structured prompt that targets topic alignment and preservation of the underlying mathematics. (Walkington et al. (2025))

Claims

• Teachers adjusted problem topics as the most common refinement move [+W]
• PPB maintained comparable readability on three of four measures while increasing Flesch-Kincaid toward grade level [+W]

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Key Sources

• Walkington, C., Beauchamp, T., Ikram, F., Koçyiğit Gürbüz, M., Xia, F., Lee, M., Lan, A. (2025). Mathematics Teachers’ Interactions with a Multi-Agent System for Personalized Problem Generation. doi:10.1007/978-3-032-29770-9_5

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title	Persona Problem Builder (PPB)
description	A React and Flask web-based platform developed by Walkington et al.
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