How models work
What is Chain-of-thought?
Getting an AI to show its working step by step, which often makes its final answer more accurate.
Asking “explain your reasoning step by step” nudges a model to lay out intermediate steps instead of jumping to an answer. For problems with several stages, that structure tends to reduce mistakes and makes errors easier for you to spot.
Modern reasoning models do much of this internally, but it is still useful to ask for the steps when you want to learn the method, not just the answer.
Prompt pattern
“Solve this, but first list what is given, then the formula you will use, then each step, and finally the answer in one line.”
