After years of reading "text"-based formulas in student projects and papers, I made the leap to have them use the equation editor in Word. This was a simple 30-minute activity for most of my IB/Precalculus students, and they really seemed to enjoy creating crazy formulas with subscripts and unfamiliar mathematical operators.
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