A few-shot prompt can be used to guide a Large Language Model through a mathematical reasoning task by providing several demonstrations that establish a pattern. For instance, to teach a model to sum two numbers and divide by their product, the following examples could be used:

DEMO

• ${}12\ \ 5 \rightarrow (12 + 5)/(12 \times 5) = 0.283$
• ${}3\ \ 1 \rightarrow (3 + 1)/(3 \times 1) = 1.33$
• ${}-9\ \ 4 \rightarrow (-9 + 4)/(-9 \times 4) = 0.138$
• ${}15\ \ 15 \rightarrow (15 + 15)/(15 \times 15) = 0.133$

USER

• ${}19\ \ 73 \rightarrow$

This structure allows the model to infer the required operation for the new input pair.