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I am trying to make a self-marking interactive times table test for my
students. The aim is that they can choose the times table by entering a number into one cell, and Excel will generate a set of questions to match. These need to be in a random order so as to test rote memory rather than the sequence of that times table. So 7 x 3 11 x 3 etc... rather than 1 x 3 2 x 3 etc... I have made my sheet, and I just need to rejig it so that the first number in the above calculations is 1) randomly generated and 2) is only generated once (I want them to test up to 12 x ..., doing each question once only (so do not want, for example 2 x 3 coming up twice as this would mean the second one takes up the place of the question that will be "missing"). So I need the first cell e.g. A1 to randomly generate (with fair probability) a number from the set {1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12} so that the line will form e.g. 7 x 3. The second cell A2 can't duplicate, so would need to pick randomly from the set {1,2,3,4,5,6,8,9,10,11,12} - so that it now cannot pick the number 7 that has already come up. And so on and so on until the last cell A12 can only pick the last remaining number that has not already been generated. Ideally, I would like the numbers to then remain fixed so that the sheet can mark what they have done as right or wrong, and only generate a new set of 12 questions once a button is pressed, or a different value is entered somewhere or whatever (as long as they choose when it "recalculates" and Excel doesn't do it every time they enter an answer). Does anybody have a solution for this teacher who is desperately trying to do what he can for his students? I'd be really grateful! Thanks to everyone in advance, Neil Goldwasser |
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