This is the cheapest option to get started with AnswerQuest. It's FREE !!!
It has a numeric algebra generator, very similar to the one that is used in the AnswerQuest Pro version. This is used during the 'practice' mode. All that you need to do for this is to set the boundaries, e.g. "Additions up to 9" or "Tables 1, 2 and 4". From then on the system will generate 'sums' within those boundaries, one at a time, for the student/child to answer. If the answer given was correct the child is rewarded and the next sum is generated. If not, then the correct answer is displayed before the next sum is generated. When the practice mode is stopped, the total number of sums answered is shown, as well as the total number of correct answers given. As this version is free, additions/subtractions have been limited to a value of 9 and only tables 1 to 4 will be generated.

It also allows you import exercises from elsewhere, which means it is possible to do AnswerQuest Homework. Teaching staff can create exercises or exams at school (using AnswerQuest Pro) and save these to a floppy disc, which the student/child then takes home. At home, AnswerQuest Lite reads the floppy disc, shows the questions and records the answers back onto the floppy disc. The teacher then reads the answers back from the floppy disc and uses AnswerQuest Pro to mark the results. Of course if all parties have e-mail then the exercise can be e-mailed directly and no floppy disc is needed.
AnswerQuest Pro enables the teaching staff to create ANY type of exercise, not just algebra, and nearly all of those are readable by AnswerQuest Lite. Also from time to time we will be posting homework files on this website which you can download for free to use with your AnswerQuest Lite.
Go to the free stuff pages to download AnswerQuest Lite and any of the other free goodies. Alternatively you can order AnswerQuest on a CD via the mail order form.

The software will run on both Windows 3.1, Windows'95 and Windows'98 . It will run on old 486 systems with just a few MB of memory and 256 colours but for better results we recommend a 486 100 MHz (or better) with 16 MB memory (or more) and 16 bit colour (64,000 colours). It will run exceptionally well on any of the more recent Pentium systems !