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- From: bsalter@acorn.co.uk
- Subject: Acorn news release: World of Number
- Date: 20 Jan 93 08:46:35 GMT
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- World of Number Released on Archimedes
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- Embargo Release Date 20th January 1993
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- Acorn Computers is using BETT '93 to launch World of Number, a series of
- four Archimedes CD ROM disks which support the teaching and learning of the
- mathematics curriculum (key stages 3 & 4) combining the multimedia formats
- of text, sound, pictures and video.
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- World of Number was originally developed for the National Curriculum Council
- in an interactive video (IV) format by New Media and The Shell Centre for
- Mathematical Education. The same team has been sponsored by Acorn to rework
- the material for CD ROM under RISC OS thereby making this valuable resource
- accessible to the rapidly increasing number of schools equipped with Acorn
- CD ROM systems. The choice of CD ROM allows many more schools to benefit
- from the World of Number series without their having to use the more
- expensive and less universally found IV systems.
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- The four CD ROMs are:
- * Who stole the Decimal Point?
- * Picture Gallery
- * Number Games and Short Tasks
- * Perspectives
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- Who stole the Decimal Point? is an adventure game in which a series of
- mathematical problems must be solved in order to complete the story. Number
- Games consists of a collection of seven puzzles which must be solved by
- groups of students through discussion of calculation and reasoning. Picture
- Gallery has a large collection of photographs together with a set of simple
- software drawing tools which can be used for counting and measuring.
- Perspectives employs four on-screen windows enabling users to look at
- information from different perspectives in video, graphics and data.
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- The material is brought to life by Acorn Replay full motion video. Replay
- differs from Interactive Video systems in that it reads highly compressed
- data from CD ROMs in real time on a standard curriculum computer without the
- addition of hardware assistance, and yet maintains a constant frame rate.
- In this way Acorn Replay combines the cost effective processing power of
- ARM-based RISC machines with the low cost mass storage offered by CD ROM to
- solve the problem of using motion video as part of a multimedia system.
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- World of Number comes complete with worksheets which can be read from the
- CDs onto the Archimedes computer as an editable resource and subsequently
- printed out for use by teachers and students alike.
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- ENDS
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- Further information from Roger Broadie, Acorn Computers, Tel 0223 254254
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