# MathShikkha: A Controlled Study of Answer-Only and Chain-of-Thought Supervision for Bangla Mathematical Reasoning in Small Language Models

Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.08503
Published: 2026-08-09
Status: unreviewed source report

## Source excerpt (up to 25 words)

> Mathematical reasoning remains challenging in low-resource languages such as Bangla. We study whether teacher-generated Bangla Chain-of-Thought (CoT) supervision provides benefits beyond ordinary supervised fine-tuning. We

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