Restricting input

Questions
1

Is it possible to restrict input for a class activity

ie

restrict input to be an integer between 0,100 only

2

Absolutely. Use the errorMessage sink in a math input or cellErrorMessage in a table. Set the condition and th warning you want it to display and leave otherwise as an empty string. The sink will spit out a message and prevent submission.

3

is there a type() function?

how do I check that the number is not an interger:

errorMessage: when type(numberEntered) != int

?

4

In your graph (or with CL numericValue) you can check if mod(a,1)=0

5

should be ā€œnotā€ instead of ā€˜!=ā€™ā€¦

6

mod function is not defined in CL. Does that mean I need to make my own function to do this?

errorMessage:
when not(mod(studentNumber,1) = 0) ā€œinput must be an integerā€
otherwise " "

sorry very new to thisā€¦

7

Yeah not in CL. If you have a graph Iā€™d recommend putting it in there, defining it as a number and then pulling into CL. If not you can put almost any function from the calc into CL by using numericValue(ā€œcopy/paste function hereā€).

Donā€™t forget:
Interpolate the variable into the string with ${}
Add in a second backslash wherever you see one.

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8

Itā€™ll look something like this:

numericValue("\\operatorname{mod}\\left(${input.numericValue},1\\right)")

when that equals 0 you have an integer so if you want to restrict to integers you can do something like:

errorMessage: when not(numericValue("\\operatorname{mod}\\left(${input.numericValue},1\\right)") = 0) "Enter an integer." otherwise ""

Here: integer check ā€¢ Activity Builder by Desmos

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9

Right! Iā€™m very close.

errorMessage:
when not(numericValue(ā€œmod(${studentNumber},1)ā€) = 0) ā€œinput must be an integerā€
otherwise " "

[^^ gives me error message but for every input ]

whats with the operatorname left right business?

10

Thatā€™s the latex parsing in. When in doubt go into any Desmos calc and type what you want, then copy/paste into CL.

11

Thank you so much Jay!!

12

Clever use of mod, that is definitely a cleaner way of checking for integers than what I was doing. I would subtract the rounded version of the variable (i.e a - round(a)) to see if it equals zero or not.