A friend who, during our past year of university, had taken every opportunity to point out how “boring” maths is suddenly came across a dream job – but it “required” a maths degree. I put this mental arithmetic trainer together for her, along with some rushed algebra notes and an introduction to calculus. After a week of intense studying on her part, mainly from the wealth of useful internet material (anyone remember BBC bite-size?), she got the Job – congratulations!
Download here.
As an additional challenge, I kept the program’s file size at 4kB, without using any run-time beyond what comes with a fresh Windows XP installation…