maths problems

Hi, i would like to create a spreadsheet for my son to use, to test his maths skills. In column A would be the problems, column B his input (the answer) and colum C a simple IF a=b statement. The problem is, ive tried a million different ways, and i cant do column A properly.

I would like the test questions in column A to be randomly generated numbers. so i tried =randbetween(1,10)&"+"&randbetween(1,20) but no luck, as excel doesnt see it as a math problem so column C always shows incorrect. I tried =(randbetween(1,10)+(randbetween(1,20)) but still no luck, it just does the equation and shows the answer in the cell. But i would like it to show 1+4, 10+7 etc....


Can ANYONE help??

Hi,

Have you tried, for example:

=RANDBETWEEN(1,20)&"+"&RANDBETWEEN(1,20)

Regards

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I would like suggest you to choose three celll..
Cell 1 & 3 for Number and middle cell for +.. becouse, Operator Overloading is not a the feature Excel Programming language, and
need to keep away from childrens..

Chekc this one..

it would never work. .randbeween(1,10)&"+"&randbeween(1,10) which can be evaluated would change as soon as a value is entered in col b
ie 1+9 which we know =10 but if you put 10 in col b the randbetween() would recalculate and could become say 3+6 so 10 would now be wrong

you would need someone to write code so you could have non volatile rand()

or generate them somewhere copy paste special values to a sheet to work from

here is a workbook using evaluate()

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