Generating simple math exercises with Python.
Learning math is a continuous activity, that starts at a young age with the introduction of simple operations. The definition and the algorithm used to solve such operations is easy but it needs practice to fully understand it. That’s why solving a wide variety of problems will help to understand the operations and their relationship between them.
Thus having a wide variety of exercises to solve can fast-track the understanding of mathematical operations. A simple way to generate a large number of simple exercises is by algorithmically generating them. For example, simple addition exercises can be generated by randomly selecting the kind of operation and the number. To maintain the complexity of such exercises low the numbers can be constrained to numbers between 1 and 10.
This results in a series of exercises that are different among them.
The complexity of the exercises can be increased by also randomly selecting the kind of operation being done.
This simple approach will also increase the variety of examples, lowering the probability of finding the same exercise twice.
A visual aid can also be helpful to understand the mechanics of the operation, one simple way to add visual aid is by adding a simple number line. This is particularly helpful for addition and subtraction.
The number line will help to identify the number and how many steps need to be taken to find the solution. Over the right for addition and towards the left for subtraction.
Now you have a simple example of how to automate the generation of simple math exercises. As always you can find the complete code on my GitHub by clicking here. See you in the next one.
