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A shaded area problem in high school geometry consists of a figure annotated with facts such as lengths of line segments or angle measures, and asks to compute the area of a shaded portion of the figure. We describe a technique to generate fresh figures for these problems. Given a figure, we describe a technique to automatically synthesize shaded area problems. We demonstrate the efficacy of our synthesis techniques by synthesizing problems from fresh figures as well as figures from a corpus of problems from high-school geometry textbooks.
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Alvin, C., Gulwani, S., Majumdar, R., Mukhopadhyay, S. (2017). Synthesis of Problems for Shaded Area Geometry Reasoning. In: André, E., Baker, R., Hu, X., Rodrigo, M., du Boulay, B. (eds) Artificial Intelligence in Education. AIED 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10331. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61425-0_39
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