# Multilingual Grade School Math (MGSM)

> A multilingual benchmark that translates 250 grade school math problems from GSM8K into 10 typologically diverse languages: Bengali, German, Spanish, French, Japanese, Russian, Swahili, Telugu, Thai, and Chinese.

Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/benchmarks/mgsm

- Category: [Multilingual](/multilingual)
- Last updated: September 27, 2026

## About MGSM

- Year: 2022
- Tasks: 250 problems × 11 languages
- Format: Math word problems
- Difficulty: Grade school math, multilingual
- Paper: [Language Models are Multilingual Chain-of-Thought Reasoners](https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.03057)

MGSM evaluates mathematical reasoning across languages, revealing that performance can vary significantly across languages, with lower-resource languages (Bengali, Swahili, Telugu) typically showing the largest gaps.

MGSM is currently displayed on BenchLM for reference, but it is excluded from the weighted scoring formula.

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## FAQ

### What does MGSM measure?

A multilingual benchmark that translates 250 grade school math problems from GSM8K into 10 typologically diverse languages: Bengali, German, Spanish, French, Japanese, Russian, Swahili, Telugu, Thai, and Chinese.

### Which model scores highest on MGSM?

No models have been evaluated on MGSM yet.

### How many models are evaluated on MGSM?

0 AI models have been evaluated on MGSM on BenchLM.

### Does MGSM affect BenchLM's overall score?

Not directly. MGSM is still displayed on BenchLM for reference, but it is excluded from the weighted scoring formula.