Research & Learning

Check your homework answer for mistakes

After working a graded homework problem on their own, a student asked Claude to check it. It caught a mistake.

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Steps

  1. Solve it yourself first.
  2. Ask for a check, not the answer.
  3. Fix the mistake yourself.

Prompt you can copy

Here's my solution to this problem: [paste]. Don't give me the answer; tell me if there's an error and where to look.

Tools

  • Claude

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Source

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