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Tesco for
Schools &
Clubs
2009
"Spex is Ace! but I guess
you already knew that!"
M.T. Bishops Cleeve Primary School.
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| SpexClassic With Spex you can design
and furnish a room. Set
the room sizes and a budget to spend and display furniture and fittings on simple
graphs and a spreadsheet. |
| Curriculum
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Design & Technology
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Design a room in a house, a classroom, a
street, garden, moonbase, egyptian tomb, shop, pool, play area, it room,
and a shopping list. See all the designs in plan view or 3D view |
| Mathematics |
Great introduction to
Spreadsheet modelling, budgets and graphs. Design your room to a budget,
and display the results in a spreadsheet or a graph. |
| ICT Graphical Modelling
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Ideal
for Graphical Modelling: drag items into the plan, select, move,
copy, paste and rotate* to see how the different ‘graphical elements’ fit
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| Age
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5 to 14 yrs! |
For all ages but designed for primary school use and
lower secondary school. |
| Ease of use |
Intuitive and simple. |
Spex is very easy to learn and operate,
it has
been used in schools for many years and is tried and tested. |
(* spex items are hand drawn vector images and most of
them rotate in 90 degree steps.)
| How does it work? (click
on any image to enlarge) |
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There are eleven places, or
environments, you can choose to design.
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Select a budget and dimensions. |
The initial screen shows the plan
view of the room. Drag furniture onto the plan. |
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The room display can be toggled
between the plan view ...
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... and the 3d view.
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Here are all the items from the room
displayed in a simple spreadsheet.* |
(* you can export a CSV file to use
use in a functional spreadsheet like Excel.)
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A bar graph showing items
in the room. |
A pie chart showing
items in the room. |
A pictogram chart showing
items in the room. |
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A line graph of items and prices in
the room. |
| SpexClassic includes the following places to design: |
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Plan view of Spex Bedroom. |
3D View of Spex Bedroom. |
Plan view of the Spex Bathroom. |
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3D view of a Spex Bathroom. |
3D View of a Spex Kitchen. |
Plan view of a Spex Kitchen. |
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Plan view of a Spex Bedroom. |
3D View of a Spex Bedroom. |
Plan view of a Spex Classroom. |
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3D View of a Spex Classroom. |
Plan view of a Spex IT Room. |
3D view of a Spex IT Room. |
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Plan view of a Spex Garden |
3D view of a Spex Garden. |
Plan view of a Spex Egyptian Tomb. |
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3D view of a Spex Egyptian Tomb. |
Plan view of a Spex Moonbase. |
3D view of a Spex Moonbase. |
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Plan view of a Spex Play. |
3D view of a Spex Play. |
Plan view of a Spex Shop. |
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3D view of a Spex Shop. |
Plan view of a Spex Pool. |
3D view of a Spex Pool. |
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Plan view of a Spex Street. |
3D view of a Spex Street. |
3D view of a Spex Shopping. |
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Spex Shopping in the Spreadsheet. |
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What teachers have said about Spex+
"Aspex Software sell
great educational software,
including a big hit
in Year 5: Spex+"
"I must say that Spex is extremely successful, with pupils desperate to use it"
"The program is ACE,
but I guess
you already know that!"
Computer Requirement:
Computer type: PC
Operating System PC: Win 98/Win 2000/Win NT/Win
XP
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"I must say
that Spex is extremely successful,
with pupils desperate to
use it even
in their break times and
after lessons"
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