So You Need to Be a Math Guru

Dear parents and friends and some of you hardworking students out there. For those of you who are studying for PSLE mathematics and want to ace your exams, there’s good news for you. 

There is this website , www.singaporemathguru.com which I came across that offers free math questions for students to attempt on their site. And not only that, these questions can be attempted and answers will be given immediately so that the student gets instant feedback on whether their answers are correct.

Here’s a look at the website…

The above is the front page of the website.

More information when you scroll down… They have a free trial and they claim to send examination questions to your mailbox… And they also claim that questions are free to attempt…hmmm…let’s see about that

Let’s navigate to the modules page…

this is what we see

   



There are modules name “primary 4,5 and 6”…
Let’s click on primary 6…

  


As you can see above, those are some of the topics in the module called “Primary 6”…Let’s click on start module…See below…

Let’s try some of these questions…

    





Yes… you can even attempt the question and key in your answer into the field below and then press submit.. So far pretty cool…

A sound tells me I am correct. Now at this point I can choose to view solutions which is worked solutions in video format. Now this is really cool… For any student out there, they can get their answers instantly without a tutor sitting beside them.

So if your child is in primary 4, 5 or 6, try this website out right now and make full use of it. Also, a registered non-paying member gets their progress checked each time they attempt the questions. I would recommend this to anyone who wants to ace their PSLE.

MagARENA

A friend of mine recently noticed I play magic and recommended me to try this AI software.

And lo and behold its Magarena





It is a really cool game and the best thing is it is FREE!



Not just free but GNU GPL v 3 FREE!



Whats even more cool? My friend (Melvin) is the developer of the A.I. how cool is that =)

I'm so proud of him really =D


Alright enough hollering.


I tried the A.I. and it is pretty addictive.


I have not tried to make it run more than 40 cards, tho I suspect it might be possible.



One of the disclaimers of Magarena is that it is not meant as a duel playtest software, which is a little bit of a pity since, the playtesting facility will really stress test the A.I.

and more importantly provide another playtesting avenue.

Having said that,unless the AI is able to play with the nuances required in the various types of decks, it would be useless. The reason being that MWS allows a player to play against himself already so that niche is covered.


Hence I can see why Magarena does not want to pursue duels since it would significantly up the ante in complexity.


A few things to note:

- You want to download the images and use the image version
- It can take a while but its worth it
- Its really good for learning combat and phases of a turn, without the pressure of a life opponent say on MODO or MWS















You probably can get a better view here

Clicking on a card gives you the a bigger card image so its readable:










There is also a text version but I found it difficult to use as there is no way to see what the card does. I did ask Melvin what was the use of the text version, he said it was for portability. Still something a little more friendly would be good. Apprentice was a software that was pretty lightweight and text based.. so that might work =)




About the A.I.
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It is good enough to give you a good game. I suspect it is actually stronger than I think it is but it underestimates poison and landwalk.

Alot of the games I literally have a walk over because of landwalk.





Have fun ppl!