Patent ID: 7466958

Claim:
A system for editing, comparing, and resolving equations comprising: a communications network; at least one teacher computer; and a plurality of student computers, wherein each student computer is operably connected to each teacher computer via the communications network, wherein each teacher computer includes an input device, a display, and a computer-readable storage medium containing program instructions for implementing a teacher equation editor application comprising one or more program instructions for performing the steps of: receiving a question description via the input device; storing the question description; receiving one or more answers corresponding to the question description via the input device, wherein each answer includes one or more of an equation and an expression; storing the one or more answers; receiving a response from one of the plurality of student computers via the communications network in a character syntax; comparing the response with the one or more answers corresponding to the question description by rendering the response from the character syntax into a rendered expression; and displaying the rendered expression on the display of the teacher computer.