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- File name: pleasr11.zip
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- One line description: Educational program for math and science
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- Replaces: -
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- Suggested directory: \pc\educgames or similar
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- Uploader name & email: Jyri Hovila, jhovila@muikku.jmp.fi
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- Author or company: KokemΣen Opessori KY, Finland
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- Email address: opessori@kagi.com
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- Surface address: -
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- Special requirements: MS-Windows, file 'VBRUN200.DLL' required
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- Shareware payment required from private users: 30$
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- Shareware payment required from corporates: 140$ (School licence)
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- Distribution limitations: -
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- CD-ROM distribution: Contact the author or the Shareware Catapult first!
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- Remarkable demo only limitations: No
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- Nagware: Yes
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- Self-documenting: Yes
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- External documentation included: Yes (PLEASURE.WRI)
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- Source included: No
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- Size in kB zipped / unzipped: 220 / 698
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- Max. 10 lines description:
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- (v1.1) MEASUREPLEASURE for Windows
- is an educational program for math
- and science - You learn by doing and doing is fun.
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- The subjects are decimal modifications of metric
- meusurements, study of density, scales and solving
- problems.
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- The program needs the file 'VBRUN200.DLL' to run.
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- Verbose description:
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- You learn by doing and doing is fun. In MeasurePleasure one can find
- mathematical problems for different ages and levels.
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- The subjects in MeasurePleasure have been chosen to be easily used
- in mathematical studies - useful in many situations.
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- The program is in the first place designed for the junior high school,
- but due to their nature as a game and an exercise for solving problems
- the exercises are also suitable for primary school, senior high school
- and also for the teaching or some leisure activities at vocational
- school.
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- The program stimulates many kinds of learning.
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- 1) In the Play with measurements one can, through an interesting
- competition, practise the understanding of the connections between
- measuring units, prefixes and ratios.
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- 2) Study of density simulates a physical measuring, which, depending on
- the task, solves the mass, volume and material of a body by suitable
- experimental equipment and by calculating. This part of the program
- trains careful methodology for solving problems and furthermore it
- in a nice way instructs how to use window-type applications such as
- calculator, densitytable and word processor.
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- 3) In Scaled Orienteering one practises to understand the concept of
- scale in visually interesting and different settings. The idea
- is to approach the concept from many directions so that the user can
- better interiorize the concept.
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- 4) Problematic containers and puzzles over weighing are classical
- problems, which require systematic conclusions and the selection of
- the correct procedure. The purpose of the program is to support the
- problemsolver visually and by registering the influence of the
- concluded actions, so that the solver can better choose his or her
- next move. Some of the tasks are exacting and solving them gives
- even to a more experienced problemsolver a great pleasure.
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- The designers of Measurepleasure have been teaching in various
- educational institutions.
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- The programming was made with MicroSoft Visual Basic.
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