News Flash to Math Anxious Persons: Your ship has arrived -- a spreadsheet based on pure arithmetic
One unique step for T/Maker. One giant leap over pesky algebra requirements.
By: WildWords Game Company
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - Aug. 17, 2025 - PRLog -- This version of T/Maker has roots in one I created in 1979 and a modernization of the most unusual part in 1991. In 2020 a Windows update killed them. I could not jump ship to a normal spreadsheet. That would be a betrayal of decades of ideas, fond memories, and a surprising level of success. So I decided to resurrect and revamp the calculating syntax (still one of a kind) and focus on an unfortunate group -- huddled masses including math haters and others afraid to compute much of anything.To involve them I must begin with a computer screen displaying the simplest way ever to specify a calculation more realistic than one plus one equals two. Not a problem! There is a link to such a YouTube video below.
The 2023 assessment of 4,600 US adults showed Americans scoring at the lowest numeracy level or beneath it went to 34% from 29% (2017). That means more than a third now struggle to perform tasks beyond basic arithmetic. Setting out to teach these individuals (and many future students) a foundation in algebra is often not possible and even disparaging of them.
Why not develop and teach something special for them? Let's not dismiss "basic arithmetic." One way or the other every math operation or function resolves into a base of arithmetic. Yet no commercial spreadsheet has ever used anything but algebraic formulas to specify calculations. Hand calculators have used a syntax of arithmetic since forever. So here is a crazy idea. What if you molded a calculator type syntax and applied it across two dimensions like a spreadsheet, what would that be like? That would be like T/Maker!
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