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- Software of the Month Club
- November 1996 CD-ROM Program Guide
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- - DOS Education -
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- Action Educational Series Volume I: U.S. State Capitals
- What's the capital of ?
- Memorize the capitals of all U.S. states with this geography
- game. Play until you reach level 50. Great for older children.
- * Review chart for all states and their capitals
- * Tracks and reports student's progress
- * Shows percentage of correct answers
- * Online instructions
- (Application by Gary Widders)
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- ActiveMaths
- Advanced math
- Learn higher levels of math with this advanced program. Perfect
- for high school students and above. It covers algebra and
- trigonometry with four activities.
- * Draw-by-Plot: explores plotting points and variable
- spaces
- * Graphing equations
- * Frankenstein's Math Word Game: a hangman-type game
- * Practice Test: multiple choice questions
- (Application by John Calder)
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- Capitalization
- When to use uppercase letters
- Capitalization is an important part of communicating. This
- program provides a series of lessons that teaches when to use
- uppercase letters.
- * Includes 13 lessons
- * Records test scores and dates
- * Gives samples of each rule
- (Application by Skillware)
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- DiaConvertor 1.0
- Do you understand?
- Tired of your computer not converting foreign language
- characters? This utility cleans up text documents with foreign
- characters. Great for OCR, faxes and E-mail.
- * Filters accent (diacritical) marks, extended ASCII and
- control characters
- * Does not disturb ordinary punctuation and overall text
- * Compatible with virtually any language, including
- Spanish, French and German
- * Loads and saves to ASCII text files
- (Application by William Oldacre)
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- Electronic Computer Tutor
- Comprehensive glossary
- This is an electronic glossary for computer terms from A to Z.
- * More than 200 glossary terms
- * Includes diagrams and explanations of basic hardware
- * Search feature
- * Graphical interface with point-and-click operations
- (Application by Coronel Data Processing; Requires a mouse
- driver)
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- Fractal Experience 1.1
- Amazing images
- This instructional program gives students a basic understanding
- of the amazing phenomenon known as fractals. A fractal is an
- image generated by repeating a mathematical equation.
- * Teaching module includes four lessons
- * Three different modules let the student create or change
- the values of a fractal
- * Includes 10 examples in PCX format with viewing module
- * Supports resolutions from 320x200 to 1024x768 with 256-
- colors
- (Application by David Wright)
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- MedTerm
- Is there a doctor in the house?
- A great study tool for students enrolled in medical studies.
- Covers six topics, including vocabulary, prefixes, suffixes and
- combining forms.
- * Includes 1,250 questions
- * Gives a percentage of correct answers
- * Adjustable number of questions per session
- (Application by Ken Anderson)
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- Practice 1.0
- Scientific tutorial
- This program asks questions, gives hints and answers questions
- about a number of science topics, from biology to general
- science.
- * Includes more than 110 questions
- * Multiple choice questions with helpful hints
- * Tracks student names and prints reports
- (Application by Timothy J. Allen)
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- Statistical Measures 2.0
- Advanced engineering
- This interactive system is perfect for statistical analysis. Geared
- for engineers and college students, it calculates minimum,
- maximum, mean, range, median, standard deviation, variance
- and more.
- * Finds the autocorrelation of variables
- * Shows distribution diagrams for variables
- * Input information from external text files
- (Application by Timo Salmi)
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- Feature Program
- World War II Trivia
- Declare war!
- Learn about World War II as you relive the era between 1930
- and 1940 with this trivia collection. It covers important battles,
- planes, ships and people. Great for junior and high school
- students.
- * Save and load your games
- * Supports up to four players
- * Choose from three difficulty levels
- * Hint options
- (Application by Software Creations)
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