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- T-H-E M-A-T-H-S T-E-S-T
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- by Damian Wilson
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- Introducing......
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- The Maths Test is a maths tester written mainly for primary school
- children. It tests on the four main areas of basic arithmetic
- (addition,subtraction,multiplication,division) and also provides a
- set of mixed questions. It is written in BASIC2.
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- Getting going.....
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Start up the GEM enviroment as you would normally. Load in the
- DESKTOP. Load in BASIC2 by double clicking on the large 'B' icon.
- Once Basic 2 has completely loaded in go to the File menu and select
- the LOAD option. When the selector comes up change the directory so
- that you have MATHS.BAS showing. Double click on the file.
- Press F9 to start the program.
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- The Program
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- Initially a title page will appear. To remove it simply press the
- mouse button or press any key. A menu should appear after removing
- the title page. This gives you a number of options.
- The Options are as follows :
- 1) Additions Test : Tests you on your addition.
- 2) Multiplication Test : Tests you on your multiplication.
- 3) Subtraction Test : You guessed it, tests you on your subtraction.
- 4) Division Test : A division test.
- 5) Mixed Test : Gives you random questions on all of the above.
- 6) Options : Allows you to alter how hard the tests are and how many
- questions you recieve.
- To select an item simply point to it using the mouse and press the
- left-hand button. If it doesn't react try keeping the button pressed for
- a while. As an alternative you can also press the corresponding number
- key on the keyboard. The five tests are straightforward. Random questions
- will be generated by the computer and displayed on-screen. A separate
- section of the screen is provided to enable you to type your answer. Press
- ENTER to accept your answer. The mixed question test will give you
- random questions from any of the four arithmetic tests. The answer is
- numeric only - anything else will cause a Basic2 'error in input'.
- At the end of each test a screen will be shown showing how many questions
- you managed to get correct and what percentage that is.
- To change how many questions you want and how hard they are select
- OPTIONS from the menu. The program will initially ask you to set the
- difficulty level. This is from 0 to 200. You can set the level by pressing
- the '+' and '-' keys to increase and decrease the value shown on-screen.
- Press the ENTER key to accept a certain value.
- Anything beyond 100 and the tests start getting hard. Difficulty level
- 200 on a multiplication test is almost impossible !
- Next the program will ask you how many questions you want to have.
- Again press the + or - keys to change the value and ENTER to select.
- test.
- The program can prove very useful to improve peoples mental aritmetic.
- Its not just primary school children who have difficulty with 'times
- tables'. Many teenagers at school rely on calculators to do their
- arithmetic. This program may help them use their brains a little more
- than their calcs.
- Just don't cheat by calling up GEM's calculator.