Diane video taped some shots around her Alaskan home then took snapshots from the video tape. She then saved them as JPEG compressed picts. These pictures where taking all within a mile of her house during March and April 1995. Kids can easily open them through "KID PIX" by selecting "Open" under the menu then selectin…
Education
Morse Mania is a morse code tutor for the Macintosh. It helps you learn morse code by first introducing you to the morse alphabet, so you can learn what each character sounds like. Then you can practice by listening to random characters being sent, and test your ability. This version adds the ability to play a text fil…
Morse Mania is a morse code tutor for the Macintosh. It helps you learn morse code by first introducing you to the morse alphabet, so you can learn what each character sounds like. Then you can practice by listening to random characters being sent, and test your ability. This version adds the ability to play a text fil…
Select from palette of 256 colors; apply colors to "tiles" on template to create mosaic-like designs. Requires system 6.0.5 or newer, color monitor set to 256 colors. This program is free.
-Kurt Kaufman kkaufman@h5.avcnet.org
Note: This program may be included on an archive CD-ROM compilation.
Program Name: Mosquito Description: Middle school (grades 5 through 9) math freeware for Macintosh computers. Students use coordinate graphing to guide a bouncing dot through a series of mazes.
Gary Smith gsmith@polymathlove.com.
MusicMentor is a shareware HyperCard stack to help music students learn to read written music quickly. It shows a note on a music stave and asks the user to click on the corresponding key on the three octave piano keyboard within a certain time. The user can change the amount of time allowed for each note, and also dec…
MacMuse Software, Shareware for Education, announces the release of Music Tutor 1.0 which uses Apple's QuickTime Musical Instruments to provide a virtual keyboard for the music student to study note names, scales and intervals. The "Music Buttons" feature also provides a timed game for a fun and challenging study of no…
A color upgrade of "MY LITTLE KITCHEN" This is a kitchen for little kids. They can mix frosting. Make gingerbread men cookies. Decorate the cake, and now choose the color of frosting. The appliances make sounds. There is lots of kitchen things to move around and pretend with. Open doors by clicking on door handles and …
Children of all ages can improve their thinking skills by deducing the computer's secret letter. This fully functional freeware program requires the free HyperCard Player to run.
This file is the installer of a complete English to Persian dictionary developed by my company "Neviseh Pardaz". This is a freeware software. The application comes with a complete Persian manual in PDF format.
Nimble Numbers consists of educational math games that help kids learn to change math words into numbers, understand greater and less than, and use on-screen objects to learn addition and subtraction. They will better understand number fact families and what next? Play EvenLand and improve mental math with two bonus pr…
NiteLites allows kids of all ages to make beautiful pictures with colored pegs on the screen as well as learn basic math skills with concrete objects in this fully functional shareware application. A bonus game called SlingMath tests the basic skills learned. Requires Mac 7.6+ 15+ inch monitor
Notes is a freeware stack for kids that requires HyperCard Player. Using an on-screen keyboard, notes and tunes can be played with many different voices. Thanks, Joe Hammons
Product name: NP Grade Version: 1.0015 Company Homepage: http://www.northsoftproductions.com Product Homepage: http://www.northsoftproductions.com/products/grade/ Author's name: Marc Weil Author's E-Mail: marcw@northsoftproductions.com License Type: Freeware System Requirements: Mac OS 8.1 or later, 250 MHz or faster p…
Nuku is a personal tutor, teaching you the two native Japanese writing systems, hiragana and katakana. It features both systems, all three main romanization systems and methods of selecting what to learn. The user can select between button input, where corresponding kana titled button is clicked, or text field input, w…
Program Name: Number Line
Description: Middle school level math program. Students locate points on a number line. Problems deal with fractions, decimals, square roots, and/or absolute values.
Gary Smith gsmith@polymathlove.com.
An electronic children's book by Jonathan Scott.
It should work on any mac system from system 9 and up, although in OS X, it might not be visually attractive. It may also work on older systems, but I do not have the hardware to be able to verify this.
Play math games to learn basic addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division facts with on-screen objects in this fully functional shareware application. A bonus game, SlingMath, tests the basic math facts. Another bonus game, PowerMath, teaches mental math skills. Requires text to speech on System 7.6+
PEEKABOOx Word Game is a graphical variation on Hangman for young children (ages 4 - 8). As the child guesses the letters in a word, a picture depicting the word is slowly revealed. This is a fun way to learn the meaning of written words and how to spell them. The game can be played in Spanish or French, as well as Eng…
Percent-O-Rama
Middle-School (grades 5 through 9) math program written to provide skills in context. Students use mental math and proportional thinking to find common percentages (10% 5% 1% 15%, etc.) of a given number. Go to www.polymathlove.com for more free programs.
PerfectPitchTrainer 3.1.0 will teach you how to recognize each of the 12 musical tones instantly, without reference to any other note. There have been other training schemes for teaching AP such as tapes, but PPT is far more effective and convenient. It tests you in such a way that you CANNOT use your sense of RELATIVE…
Phon ID is designed to address the beginning phase of reading based on the phonics [as opposed to the see-say] method of reading pedagogy. It is based on "The Writing Road to Reading" by Romalda Bishop Spalding.
The idea in Phon ID is for the user to hear a sound and identify--from a field of four-- a phonogram that c…
Diane video taped some shots around her Alaskan home then took snapshots from the video tape. She then saved them as JPEG compressed picts. These pictures where taking all within a mile of her house during March and April 1995. Kids can easily open them through "KID PIX" by selecting "Open" under the menu then selectin…
Pizza Party Puzzles
Middle-School (grades 5 through 9) math program written to provide skills in context. Students use hints to find what fraction of a pizza was eaten by each of five party-goers. Sample hints: "Judy had 2/5 of a pizza. Bill ate twice as much pizza as Judy." Go to www.polymathlove.com for more free pr…
Freeware
PrepTutor-Version2.0J
(1) PrepTutor is a flashcard-type learning machine which is especially designed to help one expand one's English vocabulary. The package contains both "OSX version" and "Classic OS version". (2) It consists of "Machine", "Quiz", "List", "Info", and "Find". (3) You will be compiling your…
Punctuation Invaders is an arcade grammar game pitting the player against extraterrestrial invaders in the form of unpunctuated, uncapitalized sentences. The student fires a laser to punctuate words while avoiding shots from the alien. But the sentence must be completed before the aliens get close enough to beam up a h…
MacMuse Software, Shareware for Education, announces the release of version 4.2 of QuizMaker Pro, the all-in-one quiz application for the Macintosh. This upgrade adds several user requested features as well as fixing some bugs. Version 4.2 is a free upgrade for registered user of 4.0 or 4.1 and a $5 upgrade for users o…
Robert Rhino is a small application for younger children, (from 2 1/2 years old) being introduced to a computer. It is easy to use and a great tool to introduce children to the Macintosh computer environment. It takes the reader through a short story with colorful paintings, photos, and poems, with large interactive bu…
Rommy is an on screen programmable toy . It is useful for teaching Position and Movement in primary (k-6) mathematics and as a way to introduce young children to control technology. There are several different games in the application:
Simple Rommy: Children or teachers can quickly design a simple maze by clicking on …
Rommy is an on screen programmable toy . It is useful for teaching Position and Movement in primary (k-6) mathematics and as a way to introduce young children to control technology. There are several different games in the application:
Simple Rommy: Children or teachers can quickly design a simple maze by clicking on …
Requirements: OSX or 9.1 Carbon Version [midi not supported] System 7 to 9.1 PPC Version [supports midi] 5 Megabytes of Free RAM Minimum 800 * 600 screen resolution QuickTime with Musical Instrument Extension
Features: 30 Major and Minor Keys Music Software By Pianist Special Version For OSX System 9.0 Version Support…
Requirements: OSX or 9.1 Carbon Version [midi not supported] System 7 to 9.1 PPC Version [supports midi] 5 Megabytes of Free RAM Minimum 800 * 600 screen resolution QuickTime with Musical Instrument Extension
Features: 30 Major and Minor Keys Music Software By Pianist Special Version For OSX System 9.0 Version Support…
I just uploaded SimpleChord v2.3. It's a chord reference for musicians for Mac OS X that I wrote.
Dan Grover Wonder Warp Software Group www.wonderwarp.com