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Ai2 reports Claude Sonnet 5.5 and GPT-6 Sol results on math tutoring prompts

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Ai2 reports that Claude Sonnet 5.5 (low effort) was best at getting students to work through more of a math problem themselves, when prompted to "tutor well" and when teachers recommended it.

The same report says GPT-6 Sol (no reasoning) outscored Claude Opus 4.8 overall, but only with explicit tutoring instructions. The findings come from an Ai2 post on X dated 2026-10-12, and the post does not describe the test setup or sample size.

Written by AI from the articles below · updated Oct 12, 4:51 PM ET

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Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads on tutoring, GPT-6 Sol beats Opus 4.8

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    Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads on tutoring, GPT-6 Sol beats Opus 4.8

    AIAi2 reports that Claude Sonnet 5.5 (low effort) was best at asking students to work through more of a math problem themselves when teachers recommended it. With explicit tutoring instructions, GPT-6 Sol (no reasoning) outscored Claude Opus 4.8 overall.

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