They believe artificial intelligence will allow introductory computer science classes to tackle big-picture concepts. A lot of beginner students get stuck writing simple code, Porter and Zingaro said.

As schools across the country debate banning AI chatbots, some math and computer science teachers are embracing them as just another tool.

It can help a teacher plan math lessons, or write math problems geared toward different levels of instruction. It can show new computer programmers sample code, allowing them to skip over the ...

For as long as Jake Price has been a teacher, Wolfram Alpha — a website that solves algebraic problems online — has threatened to make algebra homework obsolete. Teachers learned to work around and ...