Interactive Questions – Sample Documents

This page has links to online tests, PDFs and Problem-Attic documents that show various types of interactive questions, or what are commonly referred to as Technology Enhanced Items (TEIs).

The table below separates the interactive questions into ten groups. These are meant to show a variety of question-writing techniques. While the content is all for mathematics—elementary grades through high school—the techniques apply to just about any subject.

In some ways, this page is similar to one we did previously for social studies. It was organized around a sample document of 40 questions covering the American Revolutionary War period. If you missed the announcement, see this video and help page. Now we are broadening the examples because mathematics lends itself to variations of the basic question types. It’s easy to imagine, for example, how answer fields, drag-and-drop, picture overlays, etc., can be used for number patterns, transformations, tables of data, point-plotting, and more.

Two notes:

• The documents on this page have a total of about 180 questions. This is less than 5% of all the interactive questions in the Problem-Attic database. If you click on one of the source documents in the table, you’ll get a copy of it in your account, and from there you can find the source of each question.
• The samples are a mix of questions from the free part of Problem-Attic and from banks which come with a school subscription. If you don’t have full subscriber access, you can download the PDFs and preview the online tests. If you open a source document, you’ll see “unlicensed” on certain problem thumbnails.