Check Units and Significant Figures
A component ledger separating numerical value, unit, conversion, and requested precision under a supplied rubric.
Works on any free AI · Best tool: Any AI chat (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini)
✅ How to use this effectively
- 1. Verify the model value independently.
- 2. State accepted equivalent units.
- 3. Preserve raw precision.
- 4. Route ambiguous notation to review.
🔧 If it is not right, reply with this: If equivalent units lose marks, request normalized value and unit fields beside the unchanged raw response.
THE PROMPT
ROLE: Act as a quantitative-response marker separating value, unit, and precision decisions.
CONTEXT: The teacher supplies [VERIFIED NUMERICAL KEY], [UNIT POLICY], [PRECISION POLICY], and [ANONYMOUS RESPONSES].
INPUTS — FILL EVERY PLACEHOLDER:
- [VERIFIED NUMERICAL KEY]
- [UNIT POLICY]
- [PRECISION POLICY]
- [ANONYMOUS RESPONSES]
SOURCE-BOUND TOOL FACTS AND EXACT URL WHITELIST:
- [WOLFRAMALPHA] Whitelist: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i={ENCODED_PLAIN_CALCULATOR_QUERY}. It recomputes a claim but does not prove surrounding reasoning; steps may require Pro.
- [PACK_GOOGLE_SHEETS] Paste-only fact from the pack design: output rectangular CSV plus explicit Google Sheets formulas with column letters and first/last row references. Never claim that a link creates or uploads the sheet, and include validation rows for blanks, non-numeric marks and duplicate IDs.
DO THIS:
1. Verify model values and conversions separately from marking.
2. Output paste-ready CSV with schema ScriptID,QuestionID,RawAnswer,ParsedValue,Unit,SignificantFigures,Mark,Status.
3. Create an exception queue for unknown units, ambiguous decimal notation, missing precision rules, and key disputes.
4. Provide Sheets formulas for permitted conversion, tolerance only when supplied, component marks, and totals.
5. Keep exact raw answers and never round before applying the stated precision policy.
6. Use anonymous IDs and exclude all identifying response metadata.
WORKED LINK EXAMPLE — COPY THIS EXACT ENCODING PATTERN:
Example task: Convert 2.5 kilometres to metres.
Expected result or check target: 2.5 kilometres equals 2500 metres.
check this yourself
CHECK → https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=2.5%20kilometres%20in%20metres
(paste-fallback: 2.5 kilometres in metres)
Encoding note: Spaces decode exactly; significant-figure credit follows the supplied policy.
OUTPUT FORMAT:
1. Key and Unit Audit — verified values and accepted forms
2. Parsed Answer CSV — raw and normalized components
3. Precision Exception Queue — ambiguous and unsupported cases
4. Formula Block — conversion, tolerance, and totals
5. Marking Notes — value, unit, and precision decisions
QUALITY AND TOOL GUARDRAILS:
- Never invent an accepted unit, tolerance, or significant-figure rule.
- Never mark against an unverified numerical key.
- Never alter the raw response.
- Protect student-level answer data.
- Copy every [PLACEHOLDER IN SQUARE BRACKETS] character-for-character in every template, code block and translated variant.
- Never output a desmos.com URL with parameters, a mathsolver.microsoft.com URL, an invented GeoGebra material ID, an invented DIKSHA code, an invented Khan topic path, or an unlisted quiz or simulation slug.
- Never describe an AI answer as verified. Every external check must be labelled “check this yourself” for the teacher or student to inspect personally.
- Do not invent exam facts, source citations, marks distributions, tool IDs or inaccessible links. Separate mathematical proof from computational checking.
=== TOOL-LINK OUTPUT CONTRACT — follow every rule exactly ===
1. You may output clickable links ONLY to: wolframalpha.com/input?i= · symbolab.com/solver?query= ·
geogebra.org/graphing|geometry|3d|cas?command= · math.stackexchange.com/search?q= · oeis.org/search?q= ·
artofproblemsolving.com/community/q1_ · khanacademy.org/search?page_search_query= ·
overleaf.com/docs?encoded_snip= · latex.codecogs.com/png.image? · docs.google.com/forms/...viewform?usp=pp_url
(Forms only with entry.N IDs I paste in) · plus any URL I give you or that appears in this prompt's whitelist table.
2. NEVER output: desmos.com links with query strings (they load blank), invented geogebra.org/m/ IDs, Khan topic
URLs, DIKSHA dial codes, Wolfram quiz/demo slugs not in my table, or mathsolver.microsoft.com (dead site).
3. Write queries in plain calculator syntax (x^2, sqrt(x), pi, 3/4) — never LaTeX — EXCEPT Overleaf and CodeCogs
payloads, which are LaTeX.
4. Percent-encode the query part: space→%20, +→%2B, ^→%5E, =→%3D, [→%5B, ]→%5D; in LaTeX payloads also
\→%5C, {→%7B, }→%7D, %→%25, #→%23, &→%26, newline→%0A. GeoGebra ?command= exception: encode ONLY + as %2B;
leave ( ) = ^ ; as typed.
5. One link per line, formatted exactly: CHECK → <full raw URL> (no markdown brackets, nothing after the URL).
6. Directly below every link, print: (paste-fallback: <the un-encoded query or commands>)
7. Before printing any link, silently decode your own URL and confirm it reproduces the query character-for-character;
rebuild it if not. If a URL would exceed 1,800 characters (Overleaf: 6,000), print only the paste-fallback.
8. Label every link "check this yourself" — never claim the link proves your answer is correct.
9. On phones these links must be opened in a browser, not an installed app — say this once at the end.