RekenTest

CNET Editors' review

by: CNET staff on November 29, 2011

Let's be clear and up-front about RekenTest: It's a math test. Not only that, it's a math test you take deliberately, without anyone making you. That adds up to two important facts: 1) Your ability to think up excuses to get out of the test will be strained like never before; and 2) You'll learn math. This simple but effective freeware will see to that.

RekenTest's ultrasimple interface opens in full-screen mode with an optional wizard. Unfortunately, the program only offers full-screen or fully minimized modes. The true full-screen, fully maximized mode showed our toolbar but couldn't be resized. When we clicked on the standard Restore Down or Minimize Window icons, the program minimized to a tiny, solid bar in the bottom left corner. We could drag this bar around the desktop but not resize it; we could only double-click it to restore the full window. Furthermore, clicking the program's taskbar icon didn't maximize a minimized window, it opened a new instance of RekenTest.

We chose Start Session, which opened the program's wizard. We quickly set our preferences and started our session, which involved typing in the answers to a series of progressively harder problems of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division (we started simple). When our session ended, RekenTest presented a summary of our results.

We could pause and resume our lesson; however, we were unable to minimize the paused program's window at all and had to use the Show Desktop button to see the rest of our desktop. Not only that, but clicking on a program's taskbar icon also maximized RekenTest, though it didn't obscure the top window.

RekenTest is fun to use and effective at helping you study math and as a quick brain tune-up in general. It's widely customizable, too. We understand the value of full-screen views for maintaining focus, but many people prefer to decide such things for themselves. While it's a bit clunky as software, RekenTest is certainly effective as a free math tutor and tester.

 

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Publisher's Description

From 4x4 Software:

RekenTest is freeware educational software to practice arithmetic skills. It supports basic arithmetic operations like addition and subtraction, the muliplication tables and so on, as well as more advanced arithmetic operations like decimals, money problems, percentages and fractions. The software can be used for classes or as a homework helper. It has lots of options to create the lessons you want and lets you organize your classroom with tasks and groups. Available in the languages English, Spanish, Portuguese and Dutch.

What's new in this version: Version 4.1.0 includes the following improvements:

• Wizard shows selection summary for visited pages
• The software now remembers settings like column widths, splitter position etc. automatically
• Client: improved stability after connection loss: automatically reconnect, silent logon and no error messages on re-connect
• More information when showing active groupsessions, preview for selected groupsession, auto-update, image in sidebar only if screen resolution is lar... See all new features

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