The Division Game - Instructions and Help
The Division Game is based on the Short-Division method. Wikipedia has a description of this method.
How to play the game
General Instructions
Game Boxes for Input
Game Essentials
Scoring
User Interface Elements
- In the right pane of the Game Panel above, you see (from top to bottom):
- Multiple rows containing digits or Boxes:
- The top row of Boxes is for the results of the division.
- The next row (right below the short-division line) contains the remainders obtained during division.
- The next row contains the divisor and the dividend.
- A Green Status Box - that gives you helpful real-time information as you play the game.
- Multiple rows containing digits or Boxes:
- In the center and bottom of the left pane, you see:
- A 'New Question' Button to generate a new Division problem.
- A 'Reset Parameters' Button to reset the game parameters (Difficulty-Level, Time-Limit, and other game-specific parameters) to their values at the start of the current Question. This button is disabled to begin with. It becomes enabled as soon as you change a game parameter.
- A Stop-watch that tells you how much time you have taken on the current problem.
- A Score-card that tells you your score for the current session. The Score-card reports your grades and scores separately for the different question difficulty levels: 1 - Easy, 2 - Middling, 3- Hard.
- A Clear Score button to reset the Score-card.
- A Print Score For button that prints out the Score-card. You can optionally provide a name to be printed on the Score-card page.