RE: [Aimmath-developers] Multipart questions ... a little trap

[Gustav W D. <gu...@ma...>]

> I agree with Greg and Chris... we should not impose this requirement.

I agree too now.

> Perhaps if we actually wanted to ask this particular question in
> a quiz the
> best thing to do might be to use a Text question or Matrix question to ask
> the students for a pair of distinct integers each greater than lower bound
> and then just grade the ordered pair. (Of course that wouldn't make a very
> good illustration of the multiquestion syntax. :))

This is right. Questions where the marking depends on all answers should not
be done with multi-part questions but rather as a single question with
multiple answerboxes. I had for a while thought that the proposal for
having multiple answerboxes was no longer needed now that we have multi-part
questions but Greggs and Kens analysis shows that that is not the case.

The original proposal was to allow an arbitrary number of answerboxes
embedded
anywhere within the text of the question. One possible syntax would
be to include the answerboxes inside the t> flag as something like
%(type,size)
where type is the required Maple type of the anwer and size is the size of
the box.

t> Find two primes $p_1$ and $p_2$ such that $p_2 > p_1 > @lowerbound@$.\\
 $p_1=$ %(posint,4) and $p_2=$ %(posint,4).
s> [ proc(ans1,ans2) ......


Gustav