RE: [FWP] Multiplication Tables

[Eli Evans <eevans@libronix.com>]

Hi, Roger.

What exactly do you mean by a "dynamic multiplication table"?

<anecdote>
My wife homeschools our kids, and she got tired of making arithmetic
worksheets. So last year I wrote an "interactive" Perl script that gave my
son an arbitrary number of multiplication problems, read his answer from
STDIN and told him if he got it right or not. It also kept a running log of
his scores and which problems he got right and wrong for my wife. He got
bored with that pretty quick, so I added a list of quotes from his favorite
characters from various TV programs and movies. Unfortunately, he ended up
trying to get problems wrong because the "bad guy" quotes were so much
cooler than the "good guy" quotes. (Oy!) Total, about an hour of
development.

I ended up writing a cheezey VB5 app that did essentially the same thing,
but with a GUI. (Had Win32Perl allowed TK at the time, I would have used
that. VB is bletcherous.) Instead of quotes, I had a bunch of Star Wars
icons on my hd, so I divided them into "good guys" and "bad guys" and had
the program line up a random bad guy on the left of the screen and a random
good guy on the right---before the problem was answered. If he got the
problem right, the good guy shot the bad guy, and if he got it wrong, vice
versa. It kept score and if the Rebel Alliance won, he got to hear a little
sound clip. If he got a perfect score, he got to watch a movie clip. Very
cheezey, but he didn't get as bored of it. Total, about 10 hours of
development.

But sadly, my hard drive died out about six weeks after making the GUI
version, and I had no backups! So you'll have to take my word for it.
</anecdote>

So, what was your question again? :-)

Later,
________________________
Eli Evans
Text Preparation Manager
Libronix Corp.
mailto:eli@libronix.com
http://www.libronix.com
Ec 12:12; Jn 21:22





-----Original Message-----
From: Roger Reid [mailto:RSRY@beach03.mmoh.com]
Sent: Friday, August 06, 1999 10:15 AM
To: fwp@technofile.org
Subject: [FWP] fwp-digest V1 #109 -Reply


Now,  how about a dynamic multiplication table for kids (1-9).


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