Student enters sqrt in table, want to autocheck

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On screen three, I’d like the table entries to be self-checking. I want them to enter their answers in simplified square roots. This is what I’ve tried in CL:

cellContent(2,4): when table4.cellNumericValue(2,2)=2 “:white_check_mark:” otherwise “:x:”
cellContent(2,5): when table4.cellNumericValue(2,3)=(2\sqrt{2}) “:white_check_mark:” otherwise “:x:”

It doesn’t like it. The top line works fine, but the bottom one doesn’t.

I’d also like to check both cells with one checkmark, or an x if one or both are wrong.

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This is one possible approach. You will probably need to do patterns if you want to make sure they are simplifying roots.

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Hi Laura! I think if you add a second “numericValue()” around the 2\sqrt{2} it will fix it.
If you would like to check each box individually, I would recommend cellSuffix (instead of adding more rows to the table). It could look something like this:

cellSuffix(2,2): when this.cellNumericValue(2,2)=2 “:white_check_mark:” otherwise “:x:”
cellSuffix(2,3): when this.cellNumericValue(2,3)=(numericValue(2\sqrt{2})) “:white_check_mark:” otherwise “:x:”

As the person above said though, if you want to make sure their answer is exactly 2\sqrt{2} (not some other numerically equivalent version like sqrt{8} for example) you’ll want to check for that as a string, not the numeric value.

If you would like to add another column at the end and have both answers be checked by that one box, you could do this:
cellContent(2,4): when this.cellNumericValue(2,2)=2 and this.cellNumericValue(2,3)=(numericValue(2\sqrt{2})) “:white_check_mark:” otherwise “:x:”

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Thank you. Very helpful!!

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Thank you. Adding this to my CL skills. I appreciate the detailed explanation.

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