Worksheet Crafter User Manual
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The magic square enables you to create inspiring riddle exercises for your students. You can choose the number of fields in order to create different degrees of difficulty. You can also use an Exercise Generator. |
Creating a New Magic Square
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Use the toolbar icon pictured on the left to place a new magic square on the worksheet. For more information about this topic see the chapter "Creating Items". |
Editing the Magic Square
By default the Exercise Generator is active for the magic square. In this case you can configure the exercise in the Property Editor. Worksheet Crafter then fills in the magic house automatically. You can also switch the magic square to the manual mode to manually input text into each of the boxes.
The format bar in the upper part of the window enables you to set the font for the complete field. Apart from font, font size, and color you can also choose the format options "Bold", "Italic", and "Underline".
Exercise Generator Properties
When using the Exercise Generator you can select the following settings in the Property Editor:
Size: |
Number of lines and columns of the magic square. In the number space 20 the only acceptable size is 3. For all other number spaces the size is either 3 or 5. |
Number Space: |
Specifies the allowed number space for the exercise |
Limitations: |
This property is only available for number space 1000 and higher. It enables you to further limit the applied number space (e.g. "Decadic numbers only"). |
The Magic Square in the Manual Mode
Each magic square consists of several boxes that can be selected as input fields and filled with text. Consider each of the magic square's input fields as a little text box. If you're not familiar with the input fields refer to the chapter "Working with Input Fields". Press Enter to switch from one box of the magic square to the next.
When entering text consider the following distinctive feature in exercise items: in Worksheet Crafter the multiplication sign usually depicted as an asterisk will automatically be displayed as an "x" which is more adequate for elementary school students. The same goes for the division sign: any enter colon will show up as an appropriate division sign. So there's no need to search and insert a special multiplication or division sign.
In the manual mode the Property Editor provides the following settings:
Size: |
Number of lines and columns of the magic square |
