{"id":1757,"date":"2022-01-10T11:26:46","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T11:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.numbas.org.uk\/?p=1757"},"modified":"2022-01-10T15:08:47","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T15:08:47","slug":"talk-at-fyimaths-some-adventurous-things-you-can-do-with-numbas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.numbas.org.uk\/theme-testing\/blog\/2022\/01\/talk-at-fyimaths-some-adventurous-things-you-can-do-with-numbas\/","title":{"rendered":"Talk at FYiMaths: Some adventurous things you can do with Numbas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Just before Christmas I gave a talk over Zoom to a meeting of the <a href=\"https:\/\/fyimaths.weebly.com\/\">First Year in Maths network<\/a>, titled &#8220;Some adventurous things you can do with Numbas&#8221;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There were a few experienced Numbas users in attendance, so I wanted to show off some things you can do with Numbas that I don&#8217;t normally have the chance to talk about in my standard &#8220;Introduction to Numbas&#8221; talk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>I made an explore mode question based around called &#8220;CLP&#8217;s Christmas Adventure&#8221;, based around helping Santa get ready for Christmas. Each part demonstrated a different feature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>The question has a hub-and-spoke structure, with an information part showing your progress, which you come back to after completing each task.<\/li><li>The hub shows an SVG picture of Santa&#8217;s sleigh which fills up with presents as you complete the tasks.<\/li><li>The text on the hub page is chosen from a few question variables with the data type &#8220;formatted text&#8221;, so I can display different information based on the student&#8217;s progress.<\/li><li>One of the tasks is in two parts: first you give a threshold for &#8220;niceness&#8221;, and then you&#8217;re shown some niceness scores and asked to classify them, with marking based on the answer you gave in the first part. Another example of this pattern is <a href=\"https:\/\/numbas.mathcentre.ac.uk\/question\/65916\/numbas-demo-explore-mode\/\">the &#8220;design an experiment&#8221; question in the main Numbas demo<\/a>.<\/li><li>Another task uses the &#8220;quantity with units&#8221; custom part type to ask for a mass value, and is another two-parter, this time scaffolding an estimation activity.<\/li><li>The final task uses a custom marking algorithm to combine the answers to two gaps, checking that the given width and height produce a box with an area in a certain range.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s the recording of the talk, without the Q&amp;A session at the end: (so you know, the picture in the recording is for some reason frozen for the first 20 seconds)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Some adventurous things you can do with Numbas\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JbCZV6kKPqo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And here&#8217;s the question I made:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-embed wp-block-embed-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/numbas.mathcentre.ac.uk\/question\/111935\/clp-s-christmas-adventure\/embed\/#?secret=m700AVUxED\" data-secret=\"m700AVUxED\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>You can <a href=\"https:\/\/numbas.mathcentre.ac.uk\/question\/111935\/clp-s-christmas-adventure\/\">look at the question on the Numbas editor<\/a> to see how it was made.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just before Christmas I gave a talk over Zoom to a meeting of the First Year in Maths network, titled &#8220;Some adventurous things you can do with Numbas&#8221;. 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