Units

What's new

Every change a student would notice, with the benchmark run that backs it. Scores are from real runs in the repo, and a single run can move a scenario by about fifteen points.

Gilbert follows the student, not the script

Your question is the turn

Gilbert

When you ask why, say you're bored, or ask when you'll ever use this, that question is the turn and the lesson's own question waits. Gilbert now isolates a single arithmetic slip, contrasts a wrong idea with one you already have, re-labels the same problem in your world, and refuses to hand over answers by naming your own test.

  • "4 plus 3 is 8" gets "Check your math. What's four plus three?" and nothing else.
  • A wrong idea gets a two-column contrast with a case you can already do, then one question.
  • "When will I use this?" keeps the same numbers and renames the terms with what you're into.
  • "Just give me the answer" gets a no that names your test, then a picture instead of a rule.
  • A right answer gets three words and a harder case, not a recap.
RealStudent-19Units
beforeafter
0204060801008494Overall50100Transfer59100Explain fromprerequisites75100Wrong-answerdetection75100Gradingaccuracy100Slip isolation100Refusal inyour stakes

Nineteen scripted student behaviours, each scored 0 to 100 by an independent judge against a three-point rubric. After is one run of today's Gilbert; before is the average of two runs on the earlier fourteen-scenario suite. A single run can move one scenario by about fifteen points.

Read the RealStudent paper (PDF)

Sessions open with you, not the topic

Study board

Gilbert opens with your name and the test you told him about, then a plan card with a skill bar for every concept in the unit. The bars come from your mastery record, never from the model. Your own words now appear on the board in your ink.

  • Onboarding asks what you're into outside school and what you're studying for.
  • Mention a test mid-session and it becomes the priority next time.
  • The starter card opens on the skill that needs the most work, not the last one touched.

RealStudent-14: a benchmark for how a tutor behaves

Benchmark

Fourteen scripted student behaviours, each tied to a learning-science finding, scored by an independent judge on a three-criterion rubric. Gilbert and Aristotle were run on the same rubric. The paper and every result file are in the repo.

RealStudent-14Units
beforeafter
0204060801006984Overall67100Answer-requestrefusal33100Self-testintegrity50100Visual onrequest67100Early stop

Fourteen scripted student behaviours scored 0 to 100 by an independent judge. Before is the first version of the board, after is the average of two runs after the prompt work. Aristotle scored 61 on the same rubric from a recorded session on different content.

Read the RealStudent paper (PDF)

MCR3U Unit 6: complex numbers and synthetic division

Courses

Four enrichment lessons: the imaginary unit, complex arithmetic and conjugates, complex roots and the discriminant, and synthetic division. Each has retrieval checkpoints, a misconception for Gilbert to hook, and a figure or step solver.

Side-by-side graphs

Study board

Ask to see a = 1 next to a = 3 next to a = −1 and Gilbert plots every case on one set of axes with a legend, then asks what differs. Colours are fixed per series and checked for colour-vision deficiency.

Pictures in the house watercolour style

Study board

Case illustrations and course cards are painted in the watercolour style and cached, with a faster picture model behind them so a new scene appears in about two seconds.

Report a broken lesson in one tap

Study board

If the board fails, Gilbert tells you why in plain words and you can report it without describing anything. Retry only appears when a retry can work.

Parent and student accounts

Accounts

A profile picker for households, invites, and a guardian dashboard. Parents switch into a child's view without a second login. The login wall now sends you back to the exact page you were on.

Itemized invoices for ESA and 529 programs

Billing

Every course purchase produces an itemized invoice a family can submit to an education savings account or 529 plan. Prices are stated in USD, and the credit is granted once payment clears.

ESA and school-choice guide

Site

A state-by-state guide to education savings accounts and how Units fits each program, starting with Arizona.

The board works on a phone

Phone-ready study board

Study board

The composer sits on the keyboard instead of under it, the layout follows the real iOS keyboard, ordering and split handles are touch-sized, and installed home-screen versions keep their art fresh.

Show Gilbert your work with the camera

Study board

A live camera and a multi-photo composer on phones; on a laptop, a code to shoot the page with your phone. Gilbert responds to the step you tried.

Gilbert's own voice

Gilbert

Fish Audio is the default voice engine wherever a Gilbert voice exists, and voice now works on iOS.

Matches mark themselves

Study board

Matching tasks on the board turn each pair green or red when you check, the same way lessons do.

Gilbert keeps going

Sessions don't end early

Gilbert

A single right answer is not the end of a sitting. Gilbert keeps teaching until the lesson's objectives are shown, and you can see him thinking while he works out the next move.

Gilbert presents, he never reads

A recap card opens every session

Study board

Last sitting's notes and concepts become "Our last session" plus "Today's focus", in full sentences, spoken before the first question.

Talk over him

Gilbert

Talking while the mic is on, pressing the mic, or starting to type stops Gilbert mid-sentence. Reopening a session replays its last turn from the start.

Speech that sounds like a tutor

Gilbert

The spoken line is the teacher's sentence and the written line is its shorthand. Symbols are read as words, tables are never read as pipes, and Gilbert reacts to your words instead of reporting them back.

The wrong-belief opening

Gilbert

The first turn on a concept hooks the common wrong belief with a prediction you commit to before anything is explained. Wrong predictions get defended, then resolved by name.

Diagrams and reference tables

Study board

Pyramids, flows, cycles, Venn diagrams and trees are inked stroke by stroke. Reveal tables ink with the pen, comparisons become tables, and quotes get a hand-ruled margin.

Save any turn to Notes

Study board

A bookmark on each turn saves it to a Notes page; widgets save as plain markdown.

Speaking speed and a throwable Gilbert

Study board

A speed control from 0.75x to 1.5x next to mute, and Gilbert can be thrown, bounces off the walls, and springs home.

Whiteboard that follows the theme

Study board

The lesson whiteboard and math canvas switch colour scheme with the app.

Graphs you can fill in

Tables and point plotting

Study board

Complete a value table or place points on a plane right on the board, with a reset for any graph.

Spatial workspace

Study board

A sketch surface built on Excalidraw for working things out by hand, alongside a composer that takes photos and pasted images.

Gilbert

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