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File name: pleasr11.zip 

One line description: Educational program for math and science

Replaces: -

Suggested directory: \pc\educgames or similar

Uploader name & email: Jyri Hovila, jhovila@muikku.jmp.fi

Author or company: Kokemen Opessori KY, Finland

Email address: opessori@kagi.com

Surface address: -

Special requirements: MS-Windows, file 'VBRUN200.DLL' required

Shareware payment required from private users: 30$

Shareware payment required from corporates: 140$ (School licence)

Distribution limitations: -

CD-ROM distribution: Contact the author or the Shareware Catapult first!

Remarkable demo only limitations: No

Nagware: Yes

Self-documenting: Yes

External documentation included: Yes (PLEASURE.WRI)

Source included: No

Size in kB zipped / unzipped: 220 / 698

Max. 10 lines description:
 
	(v1.1) MEASUREPLEASURE for Windows 
	is an educational program for math 
	and science - You learn by doing and doing is fun.

	The subjects are decimal modifications of metric 
	meusurements, study of density, scales and solving 
	problems. 

	The program needs the file 'VBRUN200.DLL' to run.
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Verbose description:

   You learn by doing and doing is fun. In MeasurePleasure one can find 
   mathematical problems for different ages and levels.

   The subjects in MeasurePleasure have been chosen to be easily used 
   in mathematical studies - useful in many situations.

   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.

   The program stimulates many kinds of learning.

   1) In the Play with measurements one can, through an interesting 
      competition, practise the understanding of the connections between 
      measuring units, prefixes and ratios.
   
   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.
     
   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.
   
   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.

   The designers of Measurepleasure have been teaching in various 
   educational institutions.

   The programming was made with MicroSoft Visual Basic.
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