MathShikkha: A Controlled Study of Answer-Only and Chain-of-Thought Supervision for Bangla Mathematical Reasoning in Small Language Models
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 construct \textsc{MathShikkha}, a Bangla mathematical reasoning dataset with GPT-5.4-generated ra...