I've played with many of these. And this one is pretty good. One thing that I'd like to see is a "verbal" option in these types of apps. I have trouble "hearing" math and keeping it in my head. I envision an app speaking the problem, then you have to type in the answer. It requires both math and keeping the problem in your head. Lastly, a verbal or speaking option maps to many real world scenarios.
Ten seconds of math
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#32Nice! I made something similar a while ago - http://www.speedsums.com :)
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#34I wonder if there would be any difference in the results if the numbers were stacked vertically instead of horizontally
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#35Noticed some fun SEO hacking at the bottom of the page:
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#37Noticed some fun SEO hacking at the bottom of the page: puzzles calculate formula mathematics maths decimal number calculating mathematician multiply measurement probability equation division measure homework units word problem solve converting resources tessellation anxiety math problem problems convert unit ratio number trigonometry perimeter divide mental multiplication calculus math quadratic triangle teselation…
They should remove that. It'll get them smacked by the google spam team eventually.
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#38This is pretty cool but, is it a game? I can't see how solving math problems under a time limit can be useful for anything besides a math exam or some other academic test.
My experience has been that mental math training, while not directly useful, generally seems to improve the way my brain works and enhances my analytic thinking.
This effect is a lot more tangible with longer, multi-step problems. In college (physics major) I made a point of doing every integral in my head if I could, and over time I found that my mental 'scratch space' seemed to be getting longer - that I could hold more in my short-term memory at once.
I've also observed that being a person who is 'good at math' approximately correlates with being a person who does math in your head.
[Related observation: that students strongly segregate into "good at math" vs not, as though many people are completely incapable of a mode of thought that comes naturally to others. I think it's trainable, and people who never do any math, especially in their heads, are specifically not training it.]
These are entirely anecdotal and I'd love to find more concrete data, but, right now I would absolutely vouch for mental math training.
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#39It'd be pretty cool if this actually had leaderboards, perhaps one leaderboard per set of options, limited to clusters so as to minimize the amount of leaderboards.
Such as "arithmetic, multiplication+division, arithmetic and mutliplication+division, free for all"
Was pretty upset to see that the result for scoring 5xx was the same as my next run of 7920
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#40This is pretty cool but, is it a game? I can't see how solving math problems under a time limit can be useful for anything besides a math exam or some other academic test.
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