MegaMensuration 1.2 review

MegaMensuration is an application for teaching and learning of mensuration.

License: Shareware OS: Mac OS X File size: 1510K Developer: EleMaths Software Buy Now Price: $15.00 Updated: 26 Jun 2006

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MegaMensuration is an application for teaching and learning of mensuration. Includes perimeter and area of rectangles, squares, parallelograms, triangles and trapeziums; circumference and area of circles; arc lengths and area of sectors; surface area and volume of prisms, cylinders, pyramids, cones and spheres.

Diagrams and animation help students learn the formulas better.

Includes 100 worked examples of different types. Can generate hundreds of word problems (each with a labelled diagram) for practice (up to 200 sums per session). Marks automatically and can print a report, complete with the diagrams, student's answers and correct answers, after each session.

Here are some key features of "MegaMensuration":
up to 200 different sums per session
choice of sums from one or a combination of topics
possible to change topics after each sum
a diagram with every question
100 worked examples.

What's New:
Improved tutorial for the area of a rectangle and square
Improved tutorial for the area of a parallelogram
Added new animation for tutorial on the area of a circle
Many other minor improvements to other tutorials.