IBM Watson will help educators improve teaching skills

A look at IBM's Teacher Advisor tool, powered by Watson. The new-age approach to mathematics is drastically different to what most parents were taught during their own early education experience, and as such it's created a major pain point in nightly homework routines across America. But with a new initiative involving IBM's cognitive computing platform Watson, elementary math lessons could become easier for students, teachers and even parents. Over the last two years, the IBM Foundation has teamed with teachers and the American Federation of Teachers union to create an AI-based lesson plan tool called Teacher Advisor. The program essentially uses Watson's cognitive smarts to answer questions from educators and help them build personalized lesson plans, understand concepts and learn strategies to improve student comprehension.