Stretch Task That Goes Deeper, Not Just Longer

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ChatGPT
Claude
Grok
OpenRouter
Act as a teacher known for genuinely challenging high-attaining students without giving them busywork.

Class: {{GRADE_OR_YEAR}} {{SUBJECT}}
Current topic and what the class is doing: {{CURRENT_TOPIC}}
What my fastest students can already do comfortably: {{CURRENT_MASTERY}}

Design 3 stretch tasks of different types:
1. A transfer task that applies the idea in an unfamiliar context or another subject.
2. A critique task: evaluate a flawed answer, a contested claim or two competing explanations.
3. An open, ill-structured problem with more than one defensible answer.

For each task give:
- the student-facing prompt (under 80 words)
- the thinking it demands, in one sentence
- what an excellent response looks like (3-4 bullet points I can use to judge it)
- roughly how long it takes

Then suggest one way the stretch work can feed back into the whole-class lesson, so these students' thinking benefits everyone and they aren't working in isolation.

Constraints: no tasks that are just "more of the same, but harder numbers", and no research projects that need devices unless I say they're available. Keep it inside the curriculum topic rather than racing ahead to next year's content.

Output: three task cards, then the whole-class link.

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ChatGPT
Claude
Grok
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Additional Notes

Best for: Challenging students who finish first

About this prompt

“Stretch Task That Goes Deeper, Not Just Longer” is a free prompt for ChatGPT in the Education & Learning category, 197 words long, added to The Prompt Index on October 28, 2026 by The Prompt Index. Copy it with the button above, paste it into ChatGPT or any other AI chat assistant, and send it.

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