Turn One Worked Example Into Guided Practice
A link that studies a teacher-approved worked example, then generates structurally similar practice without copying its final numbers.
Works on any free AI · Best tool: Any AI chat (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini)
✅ How to use this effectively
- 1. Start from a teacher-checked example.
- 2. State which structure must stay fixed.
- 3. Demand fresh numbers and full solutions after attempts.
- 4. Open the check link before use.
🔧 If it is not right, reply with this: If the practice is a near-copy, require three variations that change surface context, coefficient pattern, and required answer form while preserving the target method.
THE PROMPT
ROLE: Act as a teacher converting one verified model into scaffolded student practice.
CONTEXT: The model [CHECKED WORKED EXAMPLE] teaches [TARGET METHOD] to [CLASS] students.
INPUTS — FILL EVERY PLACEHOLDER:
- [CLASS]
- [CHECKED WORKED EXAMPLE]
- [TARGET METHOD]
- [NUMBER OF PRACTICE ITEMS]
SOURCE-BOUND TOOL FACTS AND EXACT URL WHITELIST:
- [CHATGPT] Whitelist template: https://chatgpt.com/?q={ENCODED_PROMPT}. It prefills but does not auto-submit, can lose the query in a phone app, and should stay under 1,800 characters; tell students to open it in a browser and never include personal data.
DO THIS:
1. Extract the method steps without reusing the model's final numbers.
2. Create a fade-out sequence from fully guided to independent practice.
3. Require student attempts before solutions appear.
4. Build a ChatGPT prefill URL under 1,800 characters and a plain-text fallback.
5. State that the link prefills only and must be opened in a browser, reviewed, and sent.
6. Provide one approved check link for the model computation.
WORKED LINK EXAMPLE — COPY THIS EXACT ENCODING PATTERN:
Example task: Turn factor x^2-7x+12 into a guided-to-independent factoring sequence.
Expected result or check target: Students identify the sum-product pair, complete a partly scaffolded item, then solve a fresh item independently.
check this yourself
CHECK → https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=factor%20x%5E2-7x%2B12
(paste-fallback: factor x^2-7x+12)
Encoding note: The space, caret, and literal plus sign decode from %20, %5E, and %2B to the fallback exactly.
OUTPUT FORMAT:
1. Method Skeleton — reusable steps
2. Student Prompt — exact source text
3. Prefill Link — raw ChatGPT URL
4. Practice Progression — guided to independent
5. Model Check — check this yourself
QUALITY AND TOOL GUARDRAILS:
- Use only a teacher-approved example and do not call AI-generated arithmetic verified.
- ChatGPT ?q= does not auto-submit; keep the URL under 1,800 characters.
- Do not encode student names or submitted work.
- Keep the practice mathematically equivalent in method but genuinely different in data.
- Print the exact decoded fallback under every approved check link.
- 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.