Race against the teens – Benchmarking mechanized math on pre-university problems

Abstract

This paper introduces a benchmark problem library for mechanized math technologies including computer algebra and automated theorem proving. The library consists of pre-university math problems taken from exercise problem books, university entrance exams, and the International Mathematical Olympiads. It thus includes problems in various areas of pre-university math and with a variety of difficulty. Unlike other existing benchmark libraries, this one contains problems that are formalized so that they are obtainable as the result of mechanical translation of the original problems expressed in natural language. In other words, the library is designed to support the integration of the technologies of mechanized math and natural language processing towards the goal of end-to-end automatic math problem solving. The paper also presents preliminary experimental results of our prototype reasoning component of an end-to-end system on the library. The library is publicly available through the Internet.