An entertaining teaching aid for young children MARCHING Order is designed as an aid to teaching simple numeracy and ordering of numbers between 1 and 9. The program is in two sections. In the first the pupil is shown a group of numbers which light up in turn. As each number lights up the pupil must press the spacebar the corresponding number of times. For each press a brick will appear above the number. Delete can be used if too many bricks are chosen, and Enter confirms a selection. In the second section the pupil must place the numbers in the correct order to enable a man to march up the bricks. To arrange the bricks in the correct order the pupil presses the spacebar until a man appears under the lowest number. The bricks above this number then re-position themselves at the bottom of the screen when Enter is pressed. When all the bricks have been re-positioned in the correct order the pupil is rewarded with a short animated sequence. At the end of each game the selection menu is re-displayed to allow the level of difficulty to be changed. CWTA |