AI think that might be pushing it too far?

Last week, I talked about the start of my journey into AI-coded applets. Two big successes, one semi-success with a much more challenging task.

A few days later I was preparing for an online GCSE Statistics class that I run. Box Plots, Outliers and Skew... hmmm. Not much content out there geared for GCSE statistics. Writing statistics questions is always a pain as you also need to write the solutions (which, in the case of drawing box plots, is time-consuming and tedious - especially electronically!). Hmm, I wonder if AI could help?

Wow. Well, while I'm at it... cumulative frequency is a pain also. I wonder if it can allow me to draw ogives (both straight line segments and smooth curves)? What about calculating percentiles (why stop at the median and quartiles)?

Oh yes. There is an absolute treasure trove of potential for statistics-related applets - and a huge time-save for the savvy teacher who develops these. As a teacher, statistics topics tend to be by far the most time-consuming to create resources for... and AI produced both of these within minutes!

A few days later, I was preparing for a tuition session with a very gifted Y8 student - we were going to be looking at Circle Theorems.

Surely not?

Now AI really struggled with this. Not the initial idea, it created a working applet that generated basic questions on each theorem - but it was incredibly limited. It still is, there is far less variety in the images than I would like (I even uploaded a bunch of questions to show the sorts of things I wanted). It also really struggled with generating multi-step problems of the type you frequently see at GCSE. It kept breaking, the print feature wouldn't show diagrams, the angles were not appearing correctly, some diagrams were misleading... perhaps free AI still has limitations? Perhaps my prompts weren't clever enough to develop the AI's thinking? Still, it works - it generates typical diagrams for each theorem, allows you to choose one or more theorems... definitely usable as a starter perhaps, or a quick revision tool for students. But, I would love it if someone reading this could extend the idea further!

If you do take any of the applets above further, please do show me the output - I think I deserve that much, at least!

More experiments await in the next post!!