BrightLab / Focused research investigations

BrightLab Spark.

Three research ideas. Five classroom investigations. Read the evidence, make a prediction, then test it with a model.

Teacher setup, model choices and notebook guide →
Year 10 · 60 minutes

Inside a geometric calculator

How can several circles represent one number — and help a model add?

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Year 6 · 45 minutes

Pip and the library that guessed

How can we help a model check, correct and learn from made-up answers?

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Year 11 · 90 minutes

When time becomes a calculation

Does a calendar-shaped representation mean a model calculates directly on a calendar?

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Year 5 · 45 minutes

A story leaves a trail

How does a model’s picture of a story change as it reads another sentence?

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Year 11 · 90 minutes

Stories through representation space

How much of a story trajectory comes from context, model, readout or projection?

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Based on three Goodfire research papers. Original demonstrations are attributed and embedded from Goodfire. Spark’s classroom activities are independent adaptations, with their limits stated beside the results.