Christian Lawson-Perfect

This exam turns off all the feedback options, so students know nothing about how they've done.

This question shows how to ask for a number in scientific notation, by asking for the significand and exponent separately and using a custom marking algorithm in the gap-fill part to put the two pieces together.

Answers not in standard form, i.e. with a significand not in $[1,10)$, are accepted but given partial marks.

A randomly generated list of numbers is shown to the student. They must tick every occurrence of the lowest number. The number of occurrences isn't always the same - sometimes the minimum is unique and sometimes it is repeated. The map function makes it easy to construct a marking matrix.

The student has to compute $a^b$ and $b^a$, then decide which of the two is bigger.

This question shows how to set up a custom marking matrix for the "choose one from a list" part, based on values used elsewhere in the question. It could use adaptive marking to use the student's incorrect values for the comparison, but doesn't at the moment.

A "match choices with answers" part where the student either gets all the marks or none. Any incorrect choice is penalised with a huge negative mark, so they end up with the minimum mark of 0.

A mathematical expression part whose answer is the product of two matrices, $X \times Y$.

By setting the "variable value generator" option for $X$ and $Y$ to produce random matrices, we can ensure that the order of the factors in the student's answer matters: $X \times Y \neq Y \times X$.

Construct a line in a GeoGebra worksheet by writing its definition string by hand.

This isn't a very neat way of doing this. It's easier to define two points in GeoGebra, then make a line through those points. You can set the positions of the points from Numbas using vectors.

Construct a line through two points in a GeoGebra worksheet. Change the line by setting the positions of the two points when the worksheet is embedded into the question.

Practice bank of multivariable calculus questions

Gradient of $f(x,y,z)$.

Should include a warning to insert * between multiplied terms

Find the coordinates of the stationary point for $f: D \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$: $f(x,y) = a + be^{-(x-c)^2-(y-d)^2}$, $D$ is a disk centre $(c,d)$.

Find the stationary points of the function: $f(x,y)=a x ^ 3 + b x ^ 2 y + c y ^ 2 x + dy$ by choosing from a list of points.

Inputting the values given into the partial derivatives to see if 0 is obtained is tedious! Could ask for the factorisation of equation 1 as the solution uses this. However there is a problem in asking for the input of the stationary points - order of input and also giving that there is two stationary points.

Two double integrals with numerical limits

Calculate a repeated integral of the form $\displaystyle I=\int_0^1\;dx\;\int_0^{x^{m-1}}mf(x^m+a)dy$

The $y$ integral is trivial, and the $x$ integral is of the form $g'(x)f'(g(x))$, so it straightforwardly integrates to $f(g(x))$.

3 Repeated integrals of the form $\int_a^b\;dx\;\int_c^{f(x)}g(x,y)\;dy$ where $g(x,y)$ is a polynomial in $x,\;y$ and $f(x)$ is a degree 0, 1 or 2 polynomial in $x$.

Questions on adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing numbers in standard form.

Given the first few terms of an arithmetic sequence, write down its formula, then find a couple of particular terms.

Work with measurements of weight, mass and density.

Questions involving the calculation of the volumes of shapes.

Questions on manipulating logarithms.

Calculate a speed in m/s given distance and time taken, then convert that to km/hour

A collection of questions on working with units of measurement, mainly in the SI/metric system.

Several 'real-world' examples.

Previous throws don't affect the probability distribution of subsequent throws. Believing otherwise is the gambler's fallacy.

Some questions on working with surds.

Calculations and graphs involving measurements of speed.

Solve a simple linear equation algebraically. The unknown appears on both sides of the equation.

Given five fractions, identify the one which is not equivalent to the others by reducing to lowest terms.

Given five fractions, identify the odd fraction out. The denominators are mainly two or three digits long.