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Use AI to help with math word problems
You use the AI. Your child does the thinking. Word problems are where a lot of children get stuck, often on the reading before any math starts. This prompt helps you find the question and the steps together, and leaves the solving to your child.
When this helps
Before any arithmetic, a word problem asks your child to work out what the question wants, pick out the numbers that matter and decide how many steps it takes. Some problems include a number that isn’t needed, and from 3rd grade some take two steps.
This prompt asks the AI to do that sorting with you, the grown-up, and then write a few new problems like it. It doesn’t solve the one on the worksheet.
The prompt
- Photograph one printed problem only. Crop out your child’s name, school, teacher and handwriting.
- Open your own AI account (ChatGPT, Gemini or similar). Most require users to be 13 or older, so you hold the phone.
- Upload the photo and paste this prompt. Change [your child's grade] to their grade first.
This is a math word problem from my child's [your child's grade] homework. Please help me, the parent, help my child. 1. Type the problem back exactly as you see it, every number and word included. If anything is unclear or cut off, say so instead of guessing. 2. Tell me in one sentence what the question is asking for. Don't give the answer. 3. List each number in the problem and what it stands for. Point out any number the problem doesn't need. 4. Tell me whether it takes one step or two, and which operations, without doing them. 5. Give me 3 questions I can ask my child to help them picture the story. Hints only, no answers. 6. Write 3 new word problems like this one, with the same operations and numbers of the same size. Number them, with no answers next to them. 7. 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.
Check before you print
- Does the problem it typed back match the photo, with every number the same?
- Is the question it restated the one the worksheet actually asks?
- Read each new problem. Does it make sense, and does it need the same operations?
- Work one new problem yourself and compare it with the key.
What to say to your child
- “Tell me the story in your own words.”
- “What is the question asking us to find?”
- “Can you draw it? Which numbers go in the picture?”
See it on a real skill
For 3rd grade, two units go deeper on story problems:
AiWhizzkids is not affiliated with or endorsed by OpenAI, Google, Microsoft or Anthropic. Most AI chatbots require users to be 13 or older (Claude requires 18), and these guides are for parents using their own accounts. AI can be wrong, so check its answers. Follow your school’s AI policy.
Checked by AiWhizzkids on November 2, 2026. Drafted with AI help. Every answer key is computed by code.
