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Hi human,

We’re thrilled to announce that Teacher Prompts has officially reached 2,500 subscribers! From classroom teachers to leaders and anyone involved in education, our community of passionate educators is growing—and we couldn’t have done it without YOU.

Here’s what some of our amazing subscribers are saying about Teacher Prompts:

• “I am the world’s biggest Teacher Prompts fan. I genuinely look forward to it each week.”
  —Craig Barton, Teacher Educator and Author 

• “AI can be daunting for busy teachers, so your newsletter is a really helpful summary of prompts and tools to try. I love the clear examples too!”
  —Jo Castelino, Secondary Science Teacher and Author 

• “I knew nothing about AI… until Teacher Prompts. Now I have some hacks I can use and some I don’t yet understand but either way, this newsletter is interesting and quite often the way you word it makes me smile 😊.”
  —Sarah Cottinghatt, Consultant and Author

A huge thank you to every single one of you for being part of this journey. We’re so grateful for your support and can’t wait to bring you even more AI-powered teaching tips and resources to your inboxes soon.

📚 Knowledge builders

• Talking AI with Craig Barton → Last week I got to sit down with the Craig Barton to talk about the good, the bad and the unknown around AI. Coming in at a respectable two hours and twenty minutes, we only scratch the surface of AI and education. Listen here.

• AI and education roundtable (researchED Scandinavia 2025) → Coming in at a far more manageable forty-three minutes, this roundtable features Eva Hartell, Arnold Pears, Nidhi Sachdeva, and Dylan Wiliam, looked at how Artificial Intelligence will affect education. Watch here.

🤖 Industry updates

• Claude plugs in to the internet → A day is a long time in AI. After explaining some of the subtle differences between different LLMs and how Claude cannot access the internet, Anthropic go and plug Claude into the internet - talk about timing.

• OpenAI road map → It seems that ChatGPT 4.5 could be coming sooner rather than later as well as ChatGPT 5. The plan with 5 is to simplify the user interface so you no longer need to select if you want it to search etc, the model will know. The ambition right now is that the free tier of ChatGPT 5 will provide unlimited chat access. Right now, free users are limited in their use of ChatGPT 4.

✨ Fresh prompts

1. SSDD Problems → Inspired by Craig’s attempts at getting AI to generate SSDD problems to save teachers time, I decided to give it a go by taking what I know about prompting and from Craigs attempts. The finished product was an artifact in Claude that was

Context

You are an AI designed to create sets of SSDD (Same Surface, Different Deep) problems in mathematics.

Same Surface: All four questions should look superficially similar—e.g., use the same shape, wording style, or context.

Different Deep: Underneath the superficial similarities, each question should come from a different mathematical topic or subtopic (except for the one specifically requested by the user).


User’s Topic
The user will provide one specific topic they want included. One of the four questions must address this user-specified topic; the remaining three should address other topics at a similar difficulty level.

Constraints & Guidance

Variety of Topics: Do not always rely on the same style of question (e.g., not always “solve for x”).

Placement of the User’s Topic: Do not always place the user’s chosen topic as Question 1.

Consistency in Appearance: Keep the wording, numbers, and visual or contextual details as similar as possible across all four questions to reinforce the “same surface” aspect.

Difficulty Level: Ensure the four questions are of comparable difficulty.

Numbers & Structure: Keep the numbers consistent or close across all four questions (e.g., all might use 12, 15, or 20 in some way).

Required Output Format:
a) The Four Questions - Present each question clearly and concisely, in a way that they look superficially similar.
b) The Topics They Are From - For each question, explicitly state which mathematical topic it belongs to.
c) The Full Solutions - Provide step-by-step solutions for each of the four questions, demonstrating how to solve them thoroughly.

I have attached some examples. 

Create an artifact based on the above for 7x8

You can check out the final artifact here.