Numeric Questions are a question type that let students respond with a number or mathematical answer. Responses are graded based on their mathematical value rather than exact formatting, so equivalent answers such as 0.5 and 1/2 can be recognized as correct. This helps improve automatic grading when students express the same answer in different ways.

Numeric Questions let students enter a number or mathematical answer instead of selecting from predefined choices. When creating a Numeric Question, you can provide one or more answers that should be accepted as correct. Socrative recognizes equivalent ways of writing the same numeric value. For example:

Percentages are treated as the number entered. For example, 50% is treated as 50.

You can add multiple accepted answers when a question has more than one possible correct response. A student only needs to provide one accepted answer for their response to be marked correct.

For example, Give a factor of 12 could accept 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, or 12.

Numeric Questions can also support mathematical expressions and equations. Students can use mathematical notation such as fractions, roots, powers, and functions when entering their response. Mathematically equivalent answers can be recognized as the same answer.

Students enter their response directly into the Numeric Question answer field.

They can enter a plain numeric response or use mathematical symbols when more advanced notation is needed.

Numeric responses are automatically graded against the correct answers provided by the teacher. Teachers can see whether responses are correct or incorrect in the live results as students answer.

Numeric Questions also support manual grading. After reviewing a response, teachers can adjust the result to:

This gives teachers the final say when a response demonstrates understanding but requires a grading adjustment.

Numeric Questions are included alongside other question types throughout results and reporting.

Teachers can review:

Numeric Questions are also included when exporting quiz or assessment results to supported PDF and spreadsheet reports. Where Results Insights or Analyze Report is available, results from Numeric Questions can also be included in the analysis.

Numeric Questions are a Pro feature. Free and Essentials users can explore Numeric Questions while editing a quiz, but a quiz containing a Numeric Question cannot be saved without the required plan. Numeric Questions are available in full quizzes and assessments only. They are not available as Quick Questions.

If a quiz containing Numeric Questions was created while you had access to the feature and your account is later downgraded: