Homework Assignment X.Y

Your Name Here

Problem 1

It’s not necessary, but if you wanted to go for a “gold standard” you could put the question itself in a text cell just like this one.  You could just jump to the “actions” like those in the cells below.

thing1=10

thing2=20

thing1*thing2

Clear[thing1, thing2]

It’s a good idea to use Clear or Exit[ ] at the end of each problem so you don’t accidentally carry values from one problem into another one.  Clear is similar to using =. to “undefine” things, except you can do several at once.

Problem 2

If a question asks for something whose response is just a sentence you can easily just type your answer in a text cell (like this one) - or if you want to go for the “gold standard” you could put the question in one text cell and your response in another.

Problem 3

Sometimes problems may have more than one part - in which case the SubSection styles may help:

Part 1

Find (2^50):

2^50

Part 2

Find (2^100):

2^100

Part 3

Determine which one is larger:

From the computations above (2^100)>(2^50). Or as a check:

2^100>2^50

Some Additional Notes

1) At the start of the notebook the Chapter/Section line is in the Title style, “Your Name” is in the Subtitle style, and the individual problems are in the Section style.

2) The text font in this notebook was set to “Times New Roman, 14 pt” through the “Edit Stylesheet...” menu selection (in the Stylesheet, use the “Choose a Style” popup menu to select Text, and then change the font of what you see using the Writing Assistant pallette.

3) These cells can be copied and pasted - even between notebooks.  Just click on the bracket that encloses the cell or cell group and use the usual copy-and-paste keyboard commands.