## Wednesday, July 24, 2013

### LaTeX Code for Standards

If you're interested in displaying coarser standards with core skills and proficiency indicators (or whatever you want to call them) in nice LaTeX boxes, here's some code for you!

There are two main templates that I work with - one with a subtitle for the standard and one without. The centering on the vertical text doesn't (in my experience) work, so I just have to play with the size of the parbox to make that work, but everything else renders pretty easily.

Edit: Thanks to Aaron Titus for pointing out two necessary inclusions:
\usepackage{multirow}
\usepackage{graphicx}

No subtitle:

{\footnotesize \begin{tabular}{| p{.7 cm} | p{1.7 cm} | p{13 cm} | }
\hline
\multirow{8}{*}
{\rotatebox[origin=c]{90}{\parbox{22 mm}{{\large{\bf Friction }}}}}
&Core Skills & Identify situations in which friction forces are present and understand the microscopic model of friction forces\\ \cline{3-3}
& & Differentiate between static and kinetic friction \\ \cline{2-3}
& \multirow{2}{*}{\parbox{1.7cm}{Proficiency Indicators}} & Determine the direction of the friction force \\ \cline{3-3}
& & Use an appropriate expression for the magnitude of the friction force \\ \cline{3-3}
& & Understand the relationships among normal force, friction force and friction coefficients \\ \cline{3-3}
& & Solve problems using friction \\ \cline{2-3}
& \multirow{1}{*}{\parbox{1.7cm}{Adv. Ind.}} & Solve complex friction problems, including banked curves (not at design speed) \\ \cline{2-3}
\hline
\end{tabular} }
\vspace{2 mm}

Subtitle:
{\footnotesize \begin{tabular}{| p{.15 cm}  p{.15 cm} | p{1.7 cm} | p{13 cm} | }
\hline
\multirow{8}{*}
{\rotatebox[origin=c]{90}{\parbox{32 mm}{{\large{\bf UFPM }}}}}
&\multirow{8}{*}
{\rotatebox[origin=c]{90}{{\parbox{50 mm}{\scriptsize \centering Unbalanced Force Particle Model}}}} &Core Skills & Recognize when the forces on an object or system are not balanced from observation, graphs, equations, or descriptions of the motion  \\ \cline{4-4}
& & & Identify the presence and directions of normal, tension, and weight forces  \\ \cline{4-4}
& & & Draw a force diagram (FBD) accurately showing directions and types of forces acting on an object or system  \\ \cline{4-4}
& & & Write net force equations describing an object or system; they should indicate that the forces are not balanced in the appropriate dimension(s)  \\ \cline{3-4}
& & \multirow{2}{*}{\parbox{1.7cm}{Proficiency Indicators}} & Draw FBD correctly indicating that forces are not balanced; recognize same \\ \cline{4-4}
& & & Choose and consistently apply workable direction(s) of positive \\ \cline{4-4}
& & & Correctly apply Newton's 3rd law \\ \cline{4-4}
& & & Choose appropriate axes for force analysis \\ \cline{4-4}
& & & Solve problems using net force equations and/or FBD \\ \cline{3-4}
\hline
\end{tabular} }
\vspace{2 mm}

#### 1 comment:

1. Users should include the following packages in the preamble:

\usepackage{multirow}
\usepackage{graphicx}