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Gen AI, as you know, can produce polished steps faster than most of us can find the answer key. For students, this can make learning something new even trickier. Try the ACE framework.
One of the problems that plagued me as a young math student? Getting the right answer without understanding how I got there. It’s like making an intuitive leap instead of depending on a step-by-step strategy. As you might guess, math isn’t my strongest subject. Rather than see it as a personal failing, I’m trying to find a step by step process that makes sense to me. Gen AI, as you know, can produce polished steps faster than most of us can find the answer key. For students, this can make learning something new even trickier. In the first post in this series, ACE It: Three Steps from Surface to Transfer Learning, I shared ACE as a simple routine for checking understanding. It stands for Articulate, Connect, and Extend. In math, ACE gives you three questions that can tell you a lot more than a completed worksheet.
