[ubuntu-nz] Times tables practice

Liz Quilty liz at debian.co.nz
Tue Nov 11 18:43:24 GMT 2008


t94xr wrote:
> Jason Taylor wrote:
>   
>> even more off topic really, and the graphics date it just a little ;)
>>
>> The classic math rescue (why wont companies open source 16 year old 
>> software....)
>>
>> http://www.3drealms.com/math/index.html
>>
>> There is a shareware download (very 90's) that runs in dosbox
>>     
> Oh god that and Word Rescue where like some of the worst games I have 
> ever been forced to play in my life. (there wasnt any other game on the 
> computer apart from those two)
> I was also forced to do this QBASIC script that my caregiver got her 
> husband to code up, forcing me to learn my times tables. I was 
> eventually forced to actually do it when he had to update it to disable 
> all of the interrupt and cancel key commands I knew of :(
>
> I never did learn my times tables very well, having them rammed down my 
> throat like that.
>
> Cameron W
> www.t94xr.net.nz
>
>   
The difference between children and adults. Adults realize that it was 
for their own good even if they dont like it.


Liz
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