Computer and projector, Mobile devices for students, Computer
Activity Description
Students will learn to use ChatGPT to generate math questions tailored to their specific career, helping them connect math skills with real-world applications.
Preparation
Familiarize Yourself with ChatGPT
Practice Using ChatGPT: Before the lesson, explore ChatGPT yourself to understand how to phrase prompts effectively. Generate a few example math questions related to different careers. This will help you anticipate how to guide students in crafting their prompts.
Sample Prompts: Prepare a list of sample prompts related to your specific CTE Program (e.g., finance, healthcare, engineering) that you can show students.
Prepare Career-Related Math Questions
Generate Questions in Advance: Use ChatGPT to create 10 example questions based on different career fields to show students how diverse careers can involve math. Save these examples to display during the lesson.
Examples to Generate:
A question on calculating interest for finance
A dosage calculation for healthcare
A load-bearing calculation for engineering
A budgeting question for retail or business
Set Up Technology
Classroom Tech Setup:
Device Access: Ensure you have a device with internet access to project ChatGPT (or access to ChatGPT if students will be using it on their own devices).
Classroom Display: Set up a projector or screen so that you can demonstrate using ChatGPT in real-time to generate questions.
Student Devices: If students will be using their own devices, check that they have access to ChatGPT (either with individual accounts or a shared classroom account if available).
Plan for Student Guidance
Prepare a List of Example Career Fields: Consider a diverse list of career fields that students may be interested in (e.g., law enforcement, veterinary medicine, sports management) and how math applies to each. This can help students who may not immediately know how math relates to their career interests.
Prompt Examples: Prepare prompts with different levels of specificity. For example:
Broad: “Give me a math question related to healthcare.”
Specific: “Generate a math question involving dosage calculation for a nurse.”
Teacher Tips
One of the strengths of AI prompt generation is that if you don't get the exact answer you want, you can continue asking.
For example, in the resource, using ChatGPT, the prompts included:
Prompt 1:
Pharmacy technicians must know how to calculate day supply, provide 10 questions for pharmacy technician students to practice day supply calculations.
Prompt 2:
Provide questions in multiple choice questions.
Prompt 3:
Provide answer sheet with explanation with how to solve each problem.
Foster AI and Digital Literacy
Explain the Power of AI as a Tool: Emphasize that AI is a resource, and learning to use it wisely is an important skill. Highlight the benefits of AI for personalized learning and problem-solving.
Discuss Responsible Use: Mention that while AI can provide useful questions, it’s still up to students to understand and solve the problems. Encourage students to double-check generated questions for clarity and appropriateness.
More Ways
Demonstrate to students how to ask AI to be a personal tutor by asking AI to show a different method in solving the problem.
Program Areas
CTE: Career Technical Education
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Warm-up
Activity: Ask students about the math topic you will be discussing and discuss how math is used Question: “Why is this math important in your chosen career?” Purpose: Engages students by linking their interests to math and prepares them for using ChatGPT to explore this connection further.
Introduction
Explain that ChatGPT can generate career-related math questions tailored to students' career field and show students how AI tools can make math more relevant and engaging.
Presentation
Instructor Demonstration:
Example Search: Begin by using ChatGPT to generate 10 example career-related math questions for their CTE field (e.g., a finance-related question on interest calculation, a healthcare-related question on dosage calculation).
Review Questions: Display and review each question with the class, discussing how each applies to their career path.
Questions Examples:
Finance: "If an investment grows at a compound interest rate of 5% per year, how much will $10,000 grow to in 10 years?"
Engineering: "If a bridge can hold a maximum load of 15,000 pounds, and each car is approximately 3,000 pounds, how many cars can it support at once?"
Healthcare: "If a patient needs 500mg of medication and a single tablet provides 125mg, how many tablets should they take?"
Purpose: Illustrates how ChatGPT can tailor math problems to real-world scenarios in various careers.
Practice
Guided Practice:
Student Requests: Ask each student to think the math topics they have learned already for their specific career.
Using ChatGPT: Show students how to input prompts like, "Generate a math question related to [career] involving [topic, e.g., percentages, algebra, geometry]."
Individual Generation: Allow students to generate their own career-related math questions with ChatGPT based on their interests.
Example Prompts for Students:
"Give me a math question about budgeting in a retail job."
"Provide a math question about dosing medication for a nursing role."
"Generate a question on calculating fuel efficiency for an automotive mechanic."
Instructor Support: Guide students as needed, helping them refine their prompts to get more specific or complex questions.
Evaluation
Group Discussion: Invite students to share the questions they generated with ChatGPT and discuss how these questions relate to their career aspirations.
Reflective Questions:
“Was it easy to generate questions relevant to your career?”
“How could practicing these types of questions help you in the future?”
Purpose: Helps assess student engagement and understanding of the practical application of math in various careers.
Application
Engagement Enhancement Extension
Independent Practice: Assign students to continue exploring ChatGPT by generating 3-5 more questions related to their career interest outside of class.
Goal: Encourage students to integrate ChatGPT as a tool for practicing and exploring math relevant to their careers.
Follow-Up Assignment: Ask students to select one question generated by ChatGPT, solve it, and write a short reflection on how this type of math is useful in their chosen career
Anchor Standard 1: Academics - Analyze and apply appropriate academic standards required for successful industry sector pathway
completion leading to postsecondary education and employment. Refer to the industry sector alignment
matrix for identification of standards.
Anchor Standard 5: Problem Solving and Critical Thinking - Writing Standard: Conduct short as well as more sustained research projects to answer a question
(including a self-generated question) or solve a problem, narrow or broaden the inquiry when appropriate, and synthesize multiple sources on the subject, demonstrating understanding of the subject under
investigation.
Anchor Standard 10: Technical Knowledge and Skills - Writing Standard: Use technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish, and update individual or
shared writing products in response to ongoing feedback, including new arguments or information.
Anchor Standard 11: Demonstration and Application - Demonstrate and apply the knowledge and skills contained in the industry-sector anchor standards,
pathway standards, and performance indicators in classroom, laboratory, and workplace settings, and
the career technical student organization.
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Math, AI, career path math, ChatGPT, career specifc scenarios, mathematics, prompt generation
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ChatGPT was used in brainstorming ideas for this resource, and generating examples of math problems in different careers
