MATHZZLE, a mathematic puzzle

Dol88 · #1 $Old$ 09-25-2008, 01:07 PM

Hello,

I made Mathzzle on my website www.dol88.com which is an original Mathematic Puzzle that allows working on operations while playing. What is to be noticed is that two children with different school levels can work on the same panels with different settings, trying to find the strategy. Eg. One playing with additions, the other with multiplications.

The user manual is here

Go on and try it !

Should you have any remark, do not hesitate !

dol88

Sweed · #2 $Old$ 09-28-2008, 11:16 PM

Nice game, may I suggest some improvements?
The notation is strange,

16
4 Looks to much like 16/4!

Try to adjust the number at the top to the left and the one belove to the right. Then you will see a clear difference between 16/4 and 16-4

Other suggestions is to count the number of moves used to solve a puzzle, and calculate a score so that kids can compete, both with them self and others. A High Score list would also be nice.

If this is to be useful in a school I think you should sell it as a multiuser license, and include an Editor and a program that gives the teacher control over the setting on the kids computers. The individual computers should send statistics to the teachers program and compile scorecards and other statistics... The Teachers Program is the most critical here and should let the teacher set the difficulty on all computers at one time and individually as well. Preferably the difficulty should rise level after level as well. Even better if you incorporate a function that lets you Save and restart at the same point another time!

There should definitely be a Installation Software as well, preferably one that lets the teacher control installation from his/her computer.

Dol88 · #3 $Old$ 09-29-2008, 02:48 PM

Hi Sweed,

Thanks for your suggestions. I took the presentation one into account and I do think you were right !

Concerning the licence for schools, as written on the site, I offer, free of charge my software to the schools, all the schools over the World !

High score and other extra are interesting but I definitely prefer focusing on the heart of the game. I think that simpler is often better.

Regards