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Question in DIAGNOSYS
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Question in DemosAn interactive experiment about probability: the student must first 'design' the experiment by deciding how many times they're going to flip a coin, and define what number of heads would make them believe the coin is biased. They must then enter the results of their coin flips, calculate the percentage of heads, and finally decide if the coin is biased, using the condition they specified in the design stage. There are optional hints at each stage.
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Exam (4 questions) in Graph theory extension
These are some questions on graph theory, pulled from a module on groups and graphs.
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A demonstration of embedding various kinds of media in a question.
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Shows how to use the bin function to group data into equal-sized intervals.
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Using some passages of text, fill in a product fact sheet.
A simple example showing how to mark entries in a spreadsheet.
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The student is shown a diagram with measurements of rooms in a house. They have to enter the measurements in a spreadsheet, then the area of each room, and finally the total area of the house.
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Exam (7 questions) in Demos
Several questions demonstrating the spreadsheets extension
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Fill in a truth table: the values for "A" and "B" are filled in, and the student has to work out "A or B" and then "(A or B) implies B".
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Given a data sheet with distances between cities and costs for different forms of transport, and some information about modes of transport used, fill in a form for a journey.
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An experiment using a PhET applet. The student can attach masses of different weights to a spring, and is asked to measure and record how far it stretches. Their measurements are shown on a graph, and they're asked to estimate the formula for the length in terms of the mass.
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Demonstrates how to construct a spreadsheet value from scratch, without uploading an .xlsx file.
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The student is shown a table with rows for each class in a school, and two columns of numbers: books, and children. They have to work out the column totals, and the number of books per child, and enter them in the table.
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This question demonstrates how to use GeoGebra applets in explore mode.
The student must construct a polygon by adding points one at a time. At any point, they can answer the question, "Is the centroid inside the polygon?"
GeoGebra's IsInRegion command is used to decide if the centroid is inside the polygon.
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Exam (11 questions) in Demos
This exam collects some questions demonstrating different uses of the programming extension and the Code part type, to mark code written in Python and R.
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The student is asked to integrate a given function. The marking algorithm differentiates the student's answer, and checks that it is equivalent to the original function.
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This question demonstrates how to construct a JSXGraph diagram using JessieCode.
The construction shows a triangle and its orthocentre, circumcentre and centroid. They are always collinear. You can move the vertices of the triangle.
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Exam (13 questions) in MSP Away day May 2023
A collection of questions demonstrating the JSXGraph, GeoGebra and Eukleides extensions.
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Exam (3 questions) in Transition to university
Evaluating arithmetic operations, and the order of operations.
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Exam (93 questions) in DIAGNOSYS
DIAGNOSYS is a knowledge-based test of mathematics background knowledge for first-year university students, created by John Appleby at Newcastle University.
The questions have been translated directly into Numbas, with as few changes as possible.
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Question in Programming extension
This question shows how to use the programming extension's run_code function to run some Python code and use its result in the marking of a non-code part type.
Python is used to calculate the correct answer for a number entry part type. This could be done
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Exam (17 questions) in Programming extension
A collection of questions demonstrating the programming extension.
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Exam (4 questions) in Transition to university
Some questions of relevance to consumers.
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Question in GCSE level questions
Use the product rule (number of ways of doing A and B = (no. for A)*(no. for B)) to count the number of ways of doing two independent tasks.
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Question in Programming extension
This question shows how to display a plot generated in matplotlib from code written by the student.
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Question in Programming extension
The student must write code to filter a given list of numbers, returning only the positive elements.
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Question in Programming extension
Given an unknown list, the student must write Python code to create a copy of it.
There's an alternative to catch the case where the student's variable is just a reference to the original list.