INSTRUCTIONS
The heart of the Sliding Scale game is the sliding scale bars that you see above. This three bar scale is the "engine" that will run the new sliding scale series of games.
There are three number lines on the sliding scale. The lower bar has a units number line. The middle bar has a tenths number line, and the top bar has a hundredths number line. The units number line is broken into tenths. The tenths number line is broken into hundredths. The hundredths number line is broken into thousandths.
The pointer on each number line can slide by dragging with the mouse. You can also move the hundredths slide by pressing the right or left arrow keys.
The Bar Weight window will tell you the weight you have selected.
Experiment with the number line pointers with numbers from 0 to 10, such as 2.625. Notice that the tenths slide moves ten times faster that the units slide and the hundredths slide moves ten times faster than the tenths slide.
The Buzzy, the Blabbit, the Blinker, and the Beetle characters are the same characters you see in the DIALSCALE game. Buzzy weighs 1 unit, Blabbit weighs 0.5 units, Blinker weighs 0.25 units, and Beetle weighs 0.125 units. There are new characters, a bird, a bee, and a spider. The bird weighs 0.2 units, the bee weighs 0.1 units, and the spider weighs 0.018 units.
After pressing the <Start> button, one of the characters will jump onto the scale. Move the sliders until you reach the correct amount.The message window will tell you if you have to move to the right (if higher) or to the left (if lower).
This game will give a good sense for the relationship between whole numbers, tenths, hundredths, and thousandths and their fraction equivalents 1/2, 1/4,1/8, and 1/10.
Try to achieve a score of 3 or better. A score of 5 or more in one minute is excellent.
The sliding scale bars will be used in a new series of games that will replace the platform scales games.
