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sprucemoose10 asked:
I am a teacher trying to create a spinner that will help me generate random numbers or words. Ideally a series of spinners would help me make random equations or fun compound words.
I am a teacher trying to create a spinner that will help me generate random numbers or words. Ideally a series of spinners would help me make random equations or fun compound words.
I’m sure that Flash could do it, but Flash is beyond my budget. Are there any other applications that would help me do this?
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I’m not sure how to do the animation part but you could use a spreadsheet application to do the mathematical part. For example Excel has a function called Rand(). Entering this on its own will generate a random number between 0 and 1. If you want a random number between 0 and 100 you can multiply this by 100 eg enter the formula
=100*Rand()
You can also use this to pick a random word or number from a list
using the Vlookup or Hlookup functions (see excel help file).
Random words can be combined by using the concatenate function or by placing the ampersand character between cell references as follows
E1&” “&H1
The cell references can also be replaced by formulas such as the lookup functions mentioned above
the empty string ” ” is used to space the words.