Challenge: Existing methods for solving math word problem (MWP) use shortcut learning to train solvers based on samples with a single question.
Approach: They propose to generate diverse yet consistent questions from a common scenario . they then feed the equations to a question generator to obtain the diverse questions . their method leads to performance improvement on the current benchmark Math23K .
Outcome: The proposed method generates diverse yet consistent questions with a variety of equations and questions . it improves on the current benchmark, which is based on the proposed method .

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