AI for teachers: the AI put together a lesson plan with problems in 20 seconds

We tested AI for teachers on an ordinary task: preparing a 6th-grade math lesson on the topic "Percentages." In 20 seconds the Yenisei AI put together a lesson plan with eight problems and answers and saved it to a Word file. In another 9 seconds it turned the same problems into a worksheet for students. We recalculated all the answers: there are no mistakes in them.

How an AI for teachers puts together a lesson plan

The request was this:

Put together a 45-minute math lesson plan for 6th grade on the topic "Percentages": objectives, stages with timing and 8 problems at three difficulty levels with answers. Save it to a Word file.

The file had more in it than we asked for: three kinds of objectives, an equipment list, the lesson procedure, problems with solutions and a self-assessment sheet for the student. The lesson procedure is laid out as a table:

That adds up to exactly 45 minutes.

Problems with answers: what the check showed

There are eight problems: three basic, three intermediate and two advanced. For each one the AI wrote a solution and an answer. Here is one problem from each level:

• Find 20% of 350. Answer: 70.
• After a 20% price cut, a jacket costs 4,800 rubles. What was the price before the cut? Answer: 6,000 rubles.
• The price of an item was first raised by 25%, then the new price was cut by 20%. How did the original price change? Answer: it did not change.

We solved all eight problems ourselves. The AI's answers are correct.

AI for creating teaching materials: a worksheet

The second request:

Make a worksheet for students out of these problems: no solutions or answers, with space to write. As a separate Word file.

After 9 seconds a second file appeared. It has a line for the last name, class and date, a short reminder of the rules, the same eight problems with blank "Solution" and "Answer" lines, and five self-assessment items.

How the AI builds a test from the text of a textbook section and checks a student's answers is covered in the article "How to make a quiz with AI".

Where the AI got it wrong

• The reminder on the worksheet contains examples with the numbers from the first and fourth problems: "20% of 350 is 350 × 0.2." That is a ready-made solution. Yet in its answer the AI wrote that the reminder contains no calculations for the problems.
• In the lesson procedure, problems one through five are assigned to levels A and B, but in the problem list the sixth also belongs to level B. The plan and the problem list don't match.

What to keep in mind

The plan is generic. We said nothing about a textbook in the request, so the AI simply wrote: "textbook, section 'Percentages.'" You have to fill in the section numbers and the textbook exercises yourself.

Where the AI for educators works

We ran the test in the Yenisei Agent app for Windows, macOS and Linux. It saves plans and worksheets as Word files to a folder on your computer, and you can open and edit them. In Yenisei Chat, AI for a teacher's work is available in a browser, with nothing to install. No VPN is required.

What to choose

• A lesson idea, a single problem, an explanation of a topic — the chat in a browser.
• A lesson plan, a worksheet, handouts as files — Yenisei Agent.
• Any material before a lesson — solve the problems yourself. Artificial intelligence for teachers saves time on preparation, but the teacher is the one responsible for the answers in front of the class.