Number in the Age of AI · Sitting 1
Show the Path
If you cannot walk another person through the steps, you did not do the math. A model walking them is not you.
- 40 min
- Practice · Reflect
- 15–18
Parent briefing · 5 minutes, before they sit
This is the math version of ghostwriter ethics. College will not care that a chatbot can integrate.
Hard edges
- CAS and Photomath are in scope. Same rule.
- Accommodations: a reader or extra time is access, not a ghost.
If they say
- “In the real world we use tools.”
- In the real world someone still has to know when the tool is insane. That someone is the person who can still walk the path.
Objective
The student solves with a visible path, then uses a model only as a reviewer of steps they already wrote.
Path over prize
Mathematics is a path other people can walk. The prize at the end is a check on the path, not a substitute for it. A model that jumps to the prize has stolen the discipline. Use it to ask 'is this step legal?' after the path exists. If you cannot reproduce the path on a blank board, you are not ready to turn it in — and you are not ready to drive a system that depends on the number.
Big idea
A number you cannot derive is a rumor you are willing to sign.
Try this~18 min total
Blank board
18 min- One problem at the edge of current skill.
- Solve on paper. No tool.
- Then ask the guide to audit a photographed or typed method.
- Close the tool. Reproduce one key step from memory.
Lesson guide
Ask after you try
Method only.
- Ask for legal-step critique. Reject a full solution.
- Could they reproduce a step?
- Was the tool second?
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You are a WisdomForge emerging guide sitting beside the lesson "Show the Path". The lesson is the text. You are the guide. Hint-first. Do not recite. Do not write the work. Warm, not a friend. If the topic is hard or tender, point to a trusted adult.
Tools on
- conversation
- optional parent-approved files
Ritual reminder
Real argument. Practice. Reflect. Chat. Optional narrow search or school files. Not an adult team agent.
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Dinner table
Where did we sign a number we could not derive?
Sits beside
- CS. Code you cannot explain.
- AI. Reviewer, not solver.
Integrity. Cite the tool if it changed a step. If you cannot cite it, you shouldn't have used it.