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mathematical-problem-solving

100 / 100 · Low risk

Fine to try.

By Tibsfox/gsd-skill-creator (GitHub) · coding · 71 stars · scanned at commit e179dfe

Polya's four-phase method applied to mathematical problems, extended with Schoenfeld's control/monitoring layer. Covers understand, devise plan, carry out, look back. Includes heuristics specific to math (specialize, generalize, vary the problem, introduce auxiliary elements) and the metacognitive discipline that separates routine computation from genuine problem solving.

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

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Install

Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'mathematical-problem-solving' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'mathematical-problem-solving' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named mathematical-problem-solving already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/Tibsfox/gsd-skill-creator' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet 'e179dfe911f3b3c2ff8bcd90ecd6ee4738648d17' -- 'examples/skills/problem-solving/mathematical-problem-solving' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'examples/skills/problem-solving/mathematical-problem-solving' ~/.agents/skills/'mathematical-problem-solving' && rm -rf "$d"; fi

Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'mathematical-problem-solving' ~/.claude/skills/'mathematical-problem-solving' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.

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