Arithmetic Tester / News: Recent posts

1. Introduction

ArithmeticExaminer is an open source utility to generate arithmetic quizzes and their solutions for primary school children. It has a very simple user interface that allows the users (parents or teachers) to select the type of exam they wish to generate (e.g., addition, subtraction, etc.), the number of questions and the maximum number of digits in the questions. The number of questions are dependent on the number of digits chosen and there is a limit of 100 questions.... read more

This release contains exams for
a) Division with remainder
b) Bug Fixes
i) Exam preview panel scroll bars to remain at the top.
ii) There is to be more gap between question numbers and questions.
iii) Exam description text area scroll bars to remain at the top.
iv) A new multiplication matrix exam to be generated each time it is selected.

Planned for future releases,
a) Relating tests in this application to Kumon levels.
b) A menu bar to allow other (mostly non-testing) options like help, information etc.
c) Devising a suitable launch mechanism, possibly using JNLP.

Version 0.2.0 of Arithmetic Tester has now been released.

This release contains exams for
a) Addition
b) Subtraction with negative results
c) Subtraction where the results are not negative
d) Multiplication
e) Multiplication where one operand is always a single digit
f) Basic division - single digit denominator and no remainders.
g) Multiplication matrix

Future releases will includes exams for
a) Division with remainder... read more

Arithmetic Examiner version 0.1.0 has been released.

This release contains exams for
a) Addition
b) Subtraction with negative results
c) Subtraction where the results are not negative
d) Multiplication
e) Multiplication where one operand is always a single digit
f) Basic division - single digit denominator and no remainders.

Other changes from release 0.0.2 include
a) Major structural changes that allow tests to b written independently and plugged in by specifying in a configuration file.
b) Separating the panel in the preview frame so that specific preview frames can be defined for different tests
c) Using spinner controls to enter number of questions and number of digits.
d) Adding a text area to display a brief description of the tests.
e) Adding an icon to the program windows
f) Adding a splash screen.... read more

GUI updates
More tests (subtraction with negative results, multiplication).