Overview
What this challenge is about.
You receive 80 practice problems across 4 topics (linear equations, factoring, systems of equations, quadratics), each with the correct answer and an expected age-appropriate explanation written by a teacher. Design CoT prompts (zero-shot CoT plus a small, careful few-shot variant) that produce reasoning-first responses. Evaluate via a 5-criterion rubric (correctness, age-appropriate vocabulary, step ordering, error-handling on wrong student answers, no skipped algebraic steps) scored by 2 paid teacher reviewers on 40 of the problems. Success is an average score above 4.0 out of 5 on each criterion and 100 percent correctness.
The Brief
What you'll do, and what you'll demonstrate.
Design CoT prompts that pass a teacher-reviewed pedagogy rubric on Spanish-language high-school algebra explanations.
Earning criteria — what you'll demonstrate
- Apply zero-shot and few-shot chain-of-thought prompting to a domain with strict pedagogy
- Design and run a human-evaluation rubric with paid expert reviewers
- Tune prompts to satisfy multiple criteria, not just correctness
- Translate prompt-design decisions into product-team documentation
Program Fit
Where this fits in your program.
Sharpens the same skills your degree expects you to demonstrate.
Skills
Skills you'll demonstrate.
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Careers
Roles this prepares you for.
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Career paths this builds toward
Canonical rolesPrompt Engineer
Designing CoT prompts for a domain with hard pedagogy constraints, plus running a human-eval rubric, is the exact day-one job of a prompt engineer at any edtech.
This challenge sharpens
- chain-of-thought-prompting
- few-shot-prompting
- prompt-evaluation
AI Product Designer
Translating product tone and pedagogy constraints into prompt design and rubric criteria is exactly what AI product designers do at consumer AI startups.
This challenge sharpens
- pedagogy
- rubric-design
- prompt-evaluation
AI Engineer
Owning the prompt-quality loop with versioned templates and a teacher-reviewed eval suite is the AI-engineer skillset shipping AI features requires.
This challenge sharpens
- prompt-evaluation
- few-shot-prompting
- chain-of-thought-prompting