NSW syllabus · Year 7–12 maths

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The ACED Loop

Ask. Watch. Then you do one.

Three steps the top maths students already use themselves. Here it runs tonight, without you asking anyone.

01 Ask

Type the question or photograph it. The one you are stuck on tonight, not a topic you should revise.

02 Watch

A short video that starts at the step where it breaks, in the method your course actually uses. Checked by a maths engine before it reaches you.

03 Practice

The same idea with different numbers, handed back so the only way forward is to do it yourself.

Find the tangent to y = x² − 4x at x = 3

Year 11 · AdvancedAsk →

y = x² − 4x f′(x) = 2x − 4 f′(3) = 2 (3, −3) The gradient comes from f′(3) · the point comes from f(3)

Your turn

Find the tangent to y = x² − 6x at x = 4

Same idea, new numbers

You get stuck. You don't know what to do about it. So you skip it and tell yourself you'll come back to it.You never come back to it.Enough of those and you decide you're just bad at maths.

The questions don't get harder. They get unfamiliar.

Not because you got worse. Because maths stacks, and one step you never quite got makes everything built on top of it look like something you've never seen. You're not bad at it. You're missing one thing, and it has a name.

Your questionSolve 5 − 2x < 11Year 8 · Advanced

1Move the 5 to the other side

2Divide both sides by −2

3HereDividing by a negative flips the sign — a rule from Year 8 you saw once. Everything after this looks right, and every mark is gone.

4Write the solution

5Show it on a number line

✓ CheckedExplained from step 3

Which is why none of this worked.

×School

Moved on.

×A scan-and-solve app

Gave you an answer. You needed a diagnosis.

×A chatbot

Correct — and useless. It built on knowledge you don't have.

×A tutor

Saw you once a week, for an hour, on their schedule.

×A coaching college

Taught ahead, when the hole was behind.

→What none of them did

Go looking for the step where it actually broke.

The one you already use is costing you marks.

Roughly a thousand high-school maths students. Half were given an ordinary chatbot to practise with. It went well, right up until the exam.

no change

+48%

on the practice problems, while they still had it

−17%

on the real exam, once it was taken away

The authors call it a crutch. To be clear: the problem isn't the technology. A version with the worked solution and the common mistakes built in removed the harm entirely. Unguarded is the problem.

Bastani et al., PNAS 2025 · Read the study ↗

Same question. One of these answers is wrong.

A flock of 12 600 sheep, males to females 1 : 20. Male weights are normally distributed, μ = 76.2, σ = 6.8. Fifteen males weigh more than x kg. Find x.

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x = 89.53 kg

Step 1 ✓ · upper tailStep 2 ✗ · z-table

Looked z up in a table. There is no z-table in the exam room. Right number, wrong method, no marks.

✓ ACΣD · checked

x = 89.8 kg

Step 1 ✓ · upper tailStep 2 ✓ · empirical rule

The empirical rule. The method the question was written for. 2σ above the mean is the upper 2.5%.

Where the marks go

Reaching for a table or a calculator function. This question is built so z = 2 falls straight out of the rule, and the marker is looking for the rule, not the number.

✓ Checked before you see it

Solve it. Prove it. Aim at the break. Hand it back.

01Solve itEvery step, in the method your course actually uses, not the one a textbook from another country uses.

02Prove itChecked against a maths engine, not a second opinion from another model. If it doesn't check out, you don't see it.

03Aim at the breakExplain the one step half the class gets wrong. Skip the ones you had. You can't target where it breaks unless you're certain about the maths, which is why step two comes first.

04Hand it backSame idea, different numbers, and you do it. Watching someone solve it is not the same as being able to.

What it won't do.

Not every question checks out

When the checker can't confirm an answer, we show you nothing and say so. We'd rather be unhelpful than wrong.

Maths only, and not all of it

Built for NSW Years 7–12 — strongest on Advanced and Extension 1 today. Extension 2 isn't ready, and we'd rather say that than half-do it.

It won't do the homework for you

Every explanation ends with the question changed and handed back. That's the design, and the study above is why.

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