Formative Math Sandbox

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Welcome to Formative! 🎉


This formative is designed to show you some of the question types and interactive content you can create in Formative.
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Here's an example of a Show Your Work question.
Teachers can upload docs, PDFs, or images to the background (or leave it blank), and students can draw and type on top. Students can also upload photos and docs to the Show Your Work space.

Click "Show Your Work" and try graphing x > -2 on the number line using the tools on the toolbar to the left.

(Need help? Check out Kate's Math.)

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Here's an example of a Numeric question.
This provides a Math keyboard for students to use to type their answer:

Teachers can also add images, videos, emojis, and audio to any question!

Determine the volume of this rectangular prism:

Don't forget units!

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Here's an example of a Numeric question + Show Your Work.
You can add a Show Your Work workspace to ANY other question type! This means you can see how students got to their final answer - and get Formative to grade the final answers for you 😎

Watch the video then solve the equation:




Use the Show Your Work space to show all your steps (the quadratic formula is there as a reminder). Then write your final answer in the format: x = a,b


Teachers can upload worksheets, resources, images, docs, and slides to Formative and add auto-graded questions to them - saving time! Here's an example of an uploaded image with questions added:
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Review Lesson 4-5: Name the isosceles triangles in the figure. Select all that apply.

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Review Lesson 4-5: Select the lengths equal to CD.

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Review Lesson 4-5: Find m∠A. Enter only a number.


Teachers can embed all kinds of things into a formative - Geogebra applets, Desmos activities and calculators, Flipgrids, Explain Everything, and more. Here are some examples:
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You can even embed within a question! Here's an example of a calculator embedded into a Numeric question:

What is the value of angle T, to the nearest degree?

You can use this calculator to help you:


Teachers can record their own videos directly in Formative - either using the webcam, or recording a screencast. Here's an example:
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Teachers can use \LaTeX in Formative to type any kind of Math notation. Formative uses Katex to render TeX, and you can see a list of supported Katex functions here.

Check out this example of a multi-line equation created using \LaTeX:

Study this solution:

\begin{aligned} 3x + 2 &= x - 5 \\ 3x + 2 {\color{red} -x} &= x - 5 {\color{red}- x} &\text{ subtract $x$ from both sides} \\ 2x + 2 &= -5 \\ 2x + 2 {\color{red} - 2} &= -5 {\color{red} -2} &\text{Subtract $2$ from both sides} \\ 2x &= -7 \\ {\color{red}\dfrac{{\color{black}2x}}{2}} &= {\color{red}\dfrac{{\color{black}-7}}{2}} &\text{ Divide by 2 to isolate $x$}\\ x = -\dfrac{7}{2} \\[2pc] 3{\color{red}\left(\dfrac{-7}{2}\right)} + 2 &= {\color{red}\left(\dfrac{-7}{2}\right)} - 5 &\text{Substitute ${\color{red}\dfrac{-7}{2}}$ in for $x$ to check}\\ -\dfrac{21}{2} + \dfrac{4}{2} &= \dfrac{-7}{2} - \dfrac{10}{2} \\ -\dfrac{17}{2} &= -\dfrac{17}{2}\checkmark&\text{ So, $\boxed{x = -\dfrac{7}{2}}$ satistifies the original equation!} \end{aligned}

Show an alternate way to solve 3x + 2 = x - 5 . Use labels to show how your work connects to the process shown here.


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All this... plus:
  • Real time student responses
  • Real time feedback
  • Canvas integration and grade pass back
  • Ability to collaborate with colleagues to create formatives together, and/or publish them to your district library
  • Data tracking over time and against standards!

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