Copilot and Claude, sitting in a tree...

Hey human,

Can you believe we are nearly in October already? As ever, the pace of AI does not slow down, but here is a round up of what’s new this week in AI.

📚 AI+education news

• ChatGPT Parental Controls > OpenAI now gives parents the option to link their teen’s ChatGPT account, with controls such as quiet hours, content filters, and the ability to turn off features like voice, images, or memory. Importantly, parents don’t see transcripts—but they may be alerted in rare cases where there’s a serious safety concern. The system is designed to balance privacy with safeguards, using filters, reporting tools, and signposting to external support.

• Best maths worksheet ever? > Maths educator, Craig Barton, looks at whether Gemini 2.5 Pro can create worksheets that will save him time and allow him to do his work better. It is well worth a read.

🌍 Wider AI updates

• Buy direct in ChatGPT > If you have ever asked ChatGPT to compare some products, you will soon be able to buy them directly from within ChatGPT. This marks a potentially disruptive way to shop.

• Prompt Pack > OpenAI have released some prompts for various roles. Have a look by clicking the link above.

• Copilot + Claude > Previously, Copilot used OpenAI’s model to power its features, but now Anthropic’s models will be made available. Some important things to know though:

  1. Administrators will get to decide if the option to switch between models is made available

  2. All the processing will happen on Anthropic’s servers. This means that using those models for work purposes will share data with Anthropic. OpenAI cannot see your data when using their models as it is processed by Microsoft.

🎯Prompt

• The best maths worksheet ever? Here is the prompt that Craig Barton used to create the worksheets as outlined in the blog above. Do not forget to attach the research paper if you are going to try it out.

I am going to share a research paper with you by Pointon and Sanwin called An analysis of undergraduate core material in the light of hand-held computer algebra systems. In the paper, the authors propose a way of classifying questions into 8 cateogries:

Factual recall
Carry out a routine calculation or algorithm
Classify some mathematical object
Interpret situation or answer
Proof, show, justify—(general argument)
Extend a concept
Construct example/instance
Criticize a fallacy
I will also share with you some examples of worksheets that apply this categorisation to various maths topics.

I would like you to study the research paper and these examples, and then I will ask you to create a worksheet of similar quality, applying the same principles, for another maths topic.

If appropriate, please include images in the questions

I would like the output to written in latex, and for the resulting worksheet to be well formatted, with no questions crossing over a page.

Please also include the answers on a separate page.

Do you understand?

Till next week.

Mr A 🦾