Using Artificial Intelligence (AI) of Chinese College Students in Solving Mathematical Problems

Abstract

Many college students, when encountering difficulties in learning university mathematics courses, turn to artificial intelligence (AI) for help. This study took 198 undergraduate students majoring in mathematics from a university as the research subjects and used the interview method to investigate their use of AI to solve university mathematics problems. The findings are as follows: (1) Nearly 98.48% of college students use AI software to solve problems during their mathematics learning; (2) "DeepSeek" and "Doubao" are the two most preferred ones by college students; (3) 95.38% of the students believe that there are problems with AI in solving problems; (4) 58.97% of the students think that AI has the problem of "inaccurate answers with errors", which is a significant lead over other problems. Based on these findings, the following suggestions are put forward: Teachers should encourage students to compare and use AI software in different fields, promote students to actively explore the differences between tools and select the best ones; Students should be required to clarify the auxiliary position of AI tools, follow the AI usage norms of "think first before using, mark first before citing", and direct plagiarism of answers should be prohibited.