Measuring cylinder (version 1.2)

Date of issue: Jul. 2004

What is it?

Measuring cylinder is an interactive teaching program (ITP) which allows you to control two taps that pour a liquid in and out of a measuring cylinder. You can set the scale on the cylinder to a maximum of 50, 100, 200, 500 or 1000 units and the scale interval to 1, 2, 5 or 10 units. You can simply turn the taps on and off and ask questions that involve prediction, addition and subtraction. Using the inlet and outlet controls to set the amount of liquid to pour in and out of the cylinder offers the opportunity for the introduction of multiplication (repeated addition) and division (repeated subtraction) too. A marker can be set to indicate an early quantity.

Downloads

Measuring Cylinder (Mac) (HQX 1.5Mb)

This version of Measuring Cylinder runs on Apple Mac OS computers. Download the file and click on the file to extract the application.

Measuring cylinder guide (WORD 175Kb)

Measuring cylinder guide (PDF 171Kb)

Measuring Cylinder (Shockwave SWF 49Kb)

This is an interactive Flash movie file. Click on the title to preview the movie in your browser. To save it on your computer right-click on the title and opt to 'Save Target As...' [Apple Macintosh users click and hold].

Measuring Cylinder (PC) (EXE 849Kb)

This version of Measuring Cylinder runs on Windows based personal computers. This is an '.exe' file which may be rejected by some networked computers where an internet firewall is in place. If in doubt download the zipped version.

Measuring Cylinder (ZIP 461Kb)

This version of Measuring cylinder runs on Windows based personal computers. You will need to have an unzip utility, such as WinZip for Windows or StuffIt Expander for Windows and Apple Macintosh, installed on your computer to unzip this file.