Use AI to help with break-apart facts

If you use AI: snap one problem, get help and more practice

Already seeing your child photograph homework so AI can solve it? This box is the grown-up version: the AI gives you hints and new practice, and your child still works the problem on paper.

For a problem that isn’t like the ones on our sheet, use your own AI account to get it explained and get 5 more like it. The photo goes to your AI account and never reaches AiWhizzkids.

1. Photograph one printed problem only. Crop out your child’s name, school, teacher and handwriting.
2. Open your own AI account (ChatGPT, Gemini or similar). Most require users to be 13 or older, so you hold the phone.
3. Upload the photo and paste this prompt:

   This is a math problem from my child's 3rd-grade homework. Please help me, the parent.
   1. Type the problem back exactly as you see it, including any words. If a picture, table or diagram is part of it, describe it in words. If anything is unclear or cut off, say so instead of guessing.
   2. Tell me what kind of problem this is (for example a two-step word problem, the distributive property, regrouping or an area model) and which strategy the worksheet seems to want.
   3. Explain that strategy to me in plain words, the way a 3rd-grade teacher would, in 5 sentences or fewer. Don't use a shortcut my child hasn't learned.
   4. Give me 3 questions I can ask my child to get started. Hints only, no answers.
   5. Write 5 new practice problems of the same type, with the same strategy and the same size of numbers. Number them. No answers next to them.
   6. Put an answer key at the very end, with one line of working for each.
   Don't solve the original problem. My child will do that.
   Show each one by splitting a fact into two easier facts, like 7 × 8 = (7 × 5) + (7 × 3), and describe it as an array split into two parts.

4. Check before you print:
   • Does the problem it typed back match the photo exactly?
   • Did it name the same strategy your child’s worksheet uses?
   • Work one new problem yourself and compare it with the key.
   • If the problem has a picture (an array, a number line, a clock), check the AI’s description of it. If the description is wrong, type the problem out instead of using the photo.
   • If anything looks off, ask again in a new chat. If two answers differ, trust neither.
   • Do the two parts add back to the original fact?

Your child works on paper. Follow your school’s AI rules.