Arithmetic Practice

Background and usage. Here are two applets that I wrote to help my daughter practice her "math facts" when she was in third grade. She would enter a number of problems to do (20 at first and eventually 50) and then see how fast she could get them all right. It became a bit of a game for her to try to break her previous speed record. She got bored with it once she was very good at these facts, but of course, that is the whole point. Click on either image to open that applet in a new window.

Source code. There are two separate-but-very-similar files. I have carefully added comments to the MultiplicationPractice.fla file but left them out of the DivisionPractice.fla file. I hope this doesn't cause any confusion. Both are based on the Basic Tutorial, "Using textboxes for input and output." I have added a frame for starting and a frame for reporting final results, so this is one of the few applets on this site that uses more than one frame. The only other new thing here is the getTimer() method for timing events.

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