These programs are Freeware for the benefit of children (and educators) 
everywhere, feel free to use them and post them ! 

These progams are designed to provide basic maths drills. 
They were designed to fit on a self booting floppy but can easily 
be run from a hard disc or under Windows. 
They are designed to teach speed and accuracy in basic arithmetic. 

Just type the answer no need for a enter- but you cannot correct mistakes !!

My best score is 48. I would expect 25 to be a good score 
for a 8 or 9 year old on the harder mixed options

There are two programs SUMTEST and MULTEST; they run simple maths tests 
against the clock, 

Sumtest takes a command line argument from 1 to 7 
1 - simple addition 
2 - simple subtracion
3 - mixed addition and subtraction
4 - simple multiplication
5 - simple division
6 - mixed multiplication and division 
7 - a mix of everything

For example Sumtest 7 will give you a mixture of everything 
while Sumtest 1 will give you simple addition questions.


If you want to run under Windows then make a new program item with a 
command line like Sumtest.exe 3. 
I haven't trried it under Windows 95 but it should work

The .dat files keep a record of the best scores. 


Multest takes a command line argument to give multiplication tests 
of the number shown ie multest 3 will test the 3 times table. 

Once Again there is no need to press enter - just type in the answer


Any comments/ suggestions  to Jim Arnold on Compuserve 100766,11737

Have you tried my Sums & Crosses program  ?



For DOS Users 

I use a simple menu front end by making a bootable floppy disk with an 
autoexec.bat like this :-  
(It uses Choice.com to select the appropriate option.)

  
:end
@echo off
cls
echo   ***************************************
echo   * Maths Tests     -  Jim Arnold 1995  *
echo   ***************************************
echo.
echo A - Addition 
echo B - Subtraction
echo C - Addition and Subtraction
echo.
echo D - Multiplication
echo E - Division
echo F - Multiplication and Division
echo.
echo G - Everything !
echo.
ECHO 6 - 6 TIMES TABLE
ECHO 7 - 7 TIMES TABLE
ECHO 8 - 8 TIMES TABLE
ECHO 9 - 9 TIMES TABLE
ECHO 1 - 11 TIMES TABLE
ECHO 2 - 12 TIMES TABLE
ECHO Q - QUIT
ECHO.
choice /c:ABCDEFG678912Q Choose a test  

if errorlevel 14 goto quit
if errorlevel 13 goto M
if errorlevel 12 goto L   
if errorlevel 11 goto K
if errorlevel 10 goto J  
if errorlevel 9 goto I  
if errorlevel 8 goto H  
if errorlevel 7 goto G
if errorlevel 6 goto F   
if errorlevel 5 goto E
if errorlevel 4 goto D  
if errorlevel 3 goto C  
if errorlevel 2 goto B  
if errorlevel 1 goto A 
 
:A
SUMTEST 1
GOTO end

:B
SUMTEST 2
GOTO end

:C
SUMTEST 3
GOTO end

:D
SUMTEST 4 
GOTO end

:E
SUMTEST 5
GOTO end

:F
SUMTEST 6
GOTO end

:G 
SUMTEST 7 
GOTO end


:H
MULTEST 6
GOTO END

:I
MULTEST 7
GOTO END

:J
MULTEST 8
GOTO END

:K
MULTEST 9
GOTO END

:L
MULTEST 11
GOTO END

:M
MULTEST 12
GOTO END


:quit