Magma Math can help you spark richer math conversations in your classroom. Based on the student work in an assignment, you can generate AI-powered discussion points that highlight important ideas, misconceptions, and strategies to talk through with your class. This feature is part of our Gates grant initiative to support stronger math discourse.
What Are Discussion Points?
Discussion points are short, AI-generated prompts based on:
The problem you’re viewing
The strategies your students used
Common errors or interesting approaches
Teachers can use these prompts during whole-class discussions, small-group instruction, or lesson planning.
How to Generate Discussion Points
Open your assignment and click into the problem view (select a problem from the heatmap).
On the right-hand side, you’ll see a Discussion Points button (similar to the one used for solution comments).
Click Discussion Points, then select Generate.
Magma will analyze student solutions and create a list of discussion prompts connected to your class’s work.
How to Use the Discussion Points
Once generated, you can:
Review all suggested prompts
Use them directly in a whole-class discussion
Save notes for later
Re-generate if your student data changes
This tool is designed to help bring student thinking into your instruction and make discourse planning easier.
A few things to note:
Discussion points cannot be edited within Magma, but you can copy them into your lesson notes.
Students cannot see discussion points, these are for teachers only
Discussion points can change as more students submit work, just click Generate again to update your prompts.