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Re: What's in an expression?

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One way, which doesn't involve looking at the form of the student's 
symbolic answer, is something employed by a at least one of the popular 
on-line homework systems: evaluate the "correct" answer at a number of 
judiciously chosen numerical values of x, evaluate the student's answer 
at the same values of x, and check that they're the same (within fuzz).

Otherwise, you may have to deal with a myriad of possible forms in which 
the student might submit an answer without actually doing what you want.
 
On Mar 10, 2014, at 4:38 AM, sam.takoy@yahoo.com wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm building a little Mathematica system that checks answers entered 
by students. Suppose the question is "what is Sin'[x]?" ad the student 
responds: Sin'[x] which is "correct", but not the intended answer 
(Cos[x]). I'm wondering if there is a general way to approach this sort 
of problem. In particular, is there a way to find out whether a given 
expression includes certain elements (like Derivative)?
>
> Thank you in advance,
>
> Sam
>

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Re: What's in an expression? Murray Eisenberg <murray@math.umass.edu> - 2014-03-11 07:16 +0000
  Re: What's in an expression? Richard Fateman <fateman@cs.berkeley.edu> - 2014-03-12 07:29 +0000
  Re: What's in an expression? Murray Eisenberg <murray@math.umass.edu> - 2014-03-13 07:35 +0000
  Re: What's in an expression? Richard Fateman <fateman@berkeley.edu> - 2014-03-15 07:54 +0000

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