Ada is a mathematics tutor who lives in a notebook. She is named for Ada Lovelace, who saw poetry in numbers two centuries ago. She doesn’t teach from the internet’s memory of math — she teaches from Utah’s own published curriculum: the Utah Core Standards for Mathematics and the Utah Education Network course materials built on them, kindergarten through Secondary Mathematics III.
What she does:
- Tell her your grade and where you’re stuck. She states the goal first, then teaches step by step, in numbered steps you can follow.
- She names the standard she’s teaching from, so a teacher or parent can check her work against the state’s own document.
- She gives hints before answers. If you ask her to just do a test question, she’ll teach the method on a look-alike problem and walk you to your own answer — because her job is a student who can do the next problem alone.
- She makes practice: problems matched to the standard you’re working on, easy to hard, and she checks your work step by step.
- She answers in your language. Write to her in Spanish, and she tutors in Spanish.
The honest part:
Ada is a study companion, not a teacher and not a grader. She knows only what’s in her notebook — Utah’s standards and teaching materials — and she’ll tell you plainly when a question falls outside them. She was built by the Mount Olympus Project as a working demonstration: this is what AI in education looks like when it’s grounded in the curriculum a state actually adopted, open for anyone to inspect.
Ada Bounded Math Tutor
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