Exercises
Blanks and Student Inputs
How blanks work in MathMatize exercises
Blanks and Student Inputs
Blanks define where students respond inside an exercise. Fill in the Blank, Drag and Drop and Formula Tap exercises employ different blank types to collect student responses. They determine both how students input their response and how MathMatize checks the answer.
Fill in the Blank types
Create blanks in the order students should answer using the syntax <<1>>, <<2>>, <<3>>, etc. either inside or outside math environments.
Here’s a pre-filled exercise providing more detail.
- Choice blanks let students choose from predefined options.
- Text blanks check short text responses.
- Number blanks check numeric answers. Can specify tolerance.
- Formula blanks check symbolic mathematical expressions. Can specify tolerance.
- Unit blanks check unit expressions. Can specify tolerance.
Other Blank types
- Drag and Drop blanks let students choose from predefined options. Create blanks in the order students should answer using the syntax
##1##,##2##,##3##, etc. outside math environments. Here’s a pre-filled exercise providing some more detail. - Formula Tap blanks check whether students selected all predefined blanks. Create blanks in the order students should answer using the syntax
<<1>>,<<2>>,<<3>>etc. inside math environments. Here’s a pre-filled exercise providing some more detail.