Let’s say I am making an activity about percentages, and I want students to enter an answer like “50%” into a math input box. When you enter the percent symbol into the math input, it immediately becomes “% of”. If you try to delete the “of” part, it deletes everything.
I know the suffix sink can get around this because it prevents students from entering anything that isn’t a number. But is there a way to allow students to enter “%” as part of the answer and not have the input box immediately tack on “of”? I really want them to get in the habit of labeling their answer with appropriate units or symbols rather than having the suffix box do it for them. Would I just have to go for the text input instead?
My best solution would be to add
initialLatex: "\%"
and then add a note telling students that if they accidentally delete the percent sign, they should copy and post \% into the note.
I was looking for the same answer Laura. It was nice seeing you ask this question. I hope there is a better solution soon.
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I was also hoping that there might be an explanation as well. If the question is asking for something where the answer is “80%” … why would I ever automatically need an “of”?
I think the larger issue is the implementation of graphical functions in a math input. This should - at least - be something that can be set to a boolean at the cl level.
There isn’t really a reason that typing something like “min”, “%” or anything else of the like being instantly - and uncontrollably - converted to a math function in an Activity just because the calculator renders them in that way.
So for this use-case and many others, it would be a welcome change to the current behaviour.