Graphing Tool Grid Display and Snap Behavior

In your graphing questions, you can specify the display and behaviors for each coordinate axis. You can set the minimum and maximum displayed values and the spacing between gridlines and value labels. You can hide gridlines, labels, or coordinate axes. And you can configure the snap spacing, which determines how objects drawn on the graphing tool are positioned relative to the coordinate grid when they snap to the nearest specified unit.

To configure the grid display and snap behavior for the graphing tool, you can add any of the following notation to the answer line, delimiting each item with a semicolon. For example, to set the minimum and maximum values displayed for the graph of a linear equation, your answer key could be:

Examples

line: y=x+1; axes: [0, 30, 0, 30]

Spacing values must be positive decimal numbers; minimum and maximum values for axes must be decimal numbers, and the maximum must be greater than the minimum.

Configuration

Notation

Default Value

Example

Set the maximum and minimum values displayed on the grid.

axes: [x_minimum, 
x_maximum, y_minimum, 
y_maximum]

-10, 10, -10, 10

axes: [0, 30, 0, 30]

Hide the y-axis

yav:false

true

yav:false

Hide the x-axis

xav:false

true

xav:false

Hide the y-axis value labels

yvv:false

true

yvv:false

Hide the x-axis value labels

xvv:false

true

xvv:false

Hide horizontal gridlines

ygv:false

true

ygv:false

Hide vertical gridlines

xgv:false

true

xgv:false

Set the y-axis value label spacing

yvs:spacing

1

yvs:50

Set the x-axis value label spacing

xvs:spacing

1

xvs:40

Set the y-axis grid spacing

ygs:spacing

1

ygs:25

Set the x-axis grid spacing

xgs:spacing

1

xgs:20

Set the y-axis snap spacing

yss:spacing

1

yss:0.25

Set the x-axis snap spacing

xss:spacing

1

xss:0.1