Comment by bobdosherman

Writing sharpens your thoughts. Working math problems sharpens your ability to do math. In the context of the education system though, where grades are a signal of future ability, there's a strong incentive to engage in rent-seeking by either searching for a solutions manual or "refining" an LLM's output. The little I've done when I've taught math-based econ is to make it clear that in-class tests have very high weight on your final grade, and out-of-class problem sets have very low weight. I can only mouth words as to why it's vital for students to struggle independently on the problem sets as a tool for learning.