Aspex Software United Kingdom

  Educational Software for young people

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By designing a room on the screen students get to grips with dimensions, money and budgets.

A simple spreadsheet provides a bridge to this more abstract subject in a familiar real life context.

Spex helps pupils grasp 3D spatial concepts in a practical setting, by moving and rotating items of furniture and seeing how they relate to each other. 

Spex makes the relationship between plan view and 3D view easy to understand and gives pupils good practice in using words for shapes, space and dimensions, scale, proportion and symmetry. It has a budget facility which helps pupils to learn about budgeting and handling money.

Spreadsheet modelling is quite an abstract concept to grasp, especially for young pupils. Spex provides a valuable bridge to this area of modelling with a simple built-in spreadsheet display.

The Spex spreadsheet displays the names of the furniture used in the design together with prices and the total cost. When items of furniture are added or removed from the design this is reflected in the spreadsheet.

2D and 3D space.

Pupils learn about the relationship between 2D plans and 3D pictures, and see how items of furniture relate spatially in 2D and 3D.

Graphs.

There are graphs and charts too, including 2D and 3D bar graphs, line graph and a pie chart display the items and costs.

Managing money.

Spex+ has a simple introductory spreadsheet. It also has a budget facility so pupils learn to take account of the prices of furniture, and work out what they can afford.  

Spex is a proven asset in the hands of younger children and they love using the program. The software is also a common choice among Special Needs schools.

No problem! Pupils already know how to use Spex. It seems that no matter what the skill of the user, Spex is a winner in the classroom!