New: Select multiple questions at a time:
- Ctrl-Click on a question
- Shift-Click on a question
- Ctrl-Shift-Click on a question
- Shift-Click in a empty area of a page
- Ctrl-Shift-Click in a empty area of a page
- Shift-Click on a question set
- Ctrl-Shift-Click on a question set
Included in version 1.56 released 8/14/2013:
- Fixed: Factoring Quadratic Expressions - Minor UI issue
- Fixed: Properties of Exponents - Could generate an incorrect answer
- Fixed: Systems of Equations by Elimination - "No solution" occasionally should have been "Infinite solutions"
Included in version 1.55 released 12/11/2012:
- New: Graphs can be added to custom questions
- Improved: Graphing and Graph Paper utility more powerful and easier to use
- Improved: Support for loading files from Infinite Calculus
- Improved: Faster save/load
- Fixed: Answer for Factoring Quadratic Expressions sometimes incorrect
- Fixed: Custom questions with an illegal expression could freeze the program
- Fixed: Certain families of functions graphed incorrectly
- Note: Older versions will not be able to open assignments saved with this version
Included in version 1.53 released 9/11/2012:
- New: Preference for notation for greatest integer function
- New: Added maximize/restore button to Presentation View
- Improved: Help files
- Improved: Scroll bars
- Improved: User interface
- Improved: When choices make a question too tall for a page, some choices are removed
- Improved: Algebraic simplification routines are now more efficient
- Improved: Better graphs for: Graphing Absolute Value Equations, Graphing Linear Equations, Graphing Systems of Equations, Graphing Exponential Functions, Graphing Quadratic Functions, Graphing Linear Inequalities, Graphing Systems of Linear Inequalities, Finding Slope
- Improved: Better number lines for: Graphing Inequalities, One-Step Inequalities, Two-Step Inequalities, Multi-Step Inequalities, Compound Inequalities, Absolute Value Inequalities
- Fixed: Wrapping to full-page and half-page could be too wide
- Fixed: Able to graph certain families of functions
- Fixed: Issue involving loading & regenerating an assignment and answers being hidden
- Fixed: Program could ask about changing directions too much
- Fixed: Graphs for Compound Inequalities could omit interval
- Fixed: Graphing Exponential Functions could freeze
- Fixed: Writing Linear Equations: Answer can't be line given in question
Included in version 1.52 released 5/29/2012:
- Improved: More professional radical signs
- Improved: Graphs of discontinuous functions have breaks and open / closed holes
- Improved: Even less likely to crash when generating questions
- Fixed: Word wrapping could skip blank lines, not wrap where appropriate
- Fixed: Wrapping to full page in a custom question was too wide
- Fixed: Products of powers of e (like 2e³) no longer display with a multiplication dot
- Fixed: Most diagrams appeared incorrectly in print preview
- Fixed: Random error message on save or load
Included in version 1.51.02 released on 4/9/2012:
- Fixed: Minimum Windows version was set incorrectly
Included in version 1.51 released 4/5/2012:
- New: Added greatest integer function / floor function to custom questions Example: Find [int(2x)] when [x=3/5]
- New: Added piecewise functions to custom questions Example: [eval(f,x)] = [piecewise [x] if [x < 0], [xx] if [x >= 0]]
- Improved: Faster! Optimized rendering of questions to screen
- Improved: Faster! Optimized graphing routines
- Improved: Improved graphing capabilities
- Improved: Diagrams drawn more smoothly on screen
- Fixed: Factoring Quadratics - "Unfactorable" expressions were sometimes factorable
- Fixed: Graphs could omit holes
- Fixed: Graphs of constant functions or those involving e and π could be incorrect
- Fixed: Minor indentation issue in custom questions
- Fixed: Horizontal asymptotes could be drawn beyond a graph's area
- Note: Older versions will not be able to open assignments saved with this version
Included in version 1.50 released 3/15/2012:
- New: Presentation View window is resizeable
- New: Presentation View has option to automatically hide the answers when a new question is displayed
- New: High-level filter to prevent questions from containing an illegal expression
- Improved: Faster! Optimized the simplification of mathematical expressions
- Improved: Faster! Improved undo/redo algorithm
- Improved: Smaller executable size
- Improved: "Current Question Sets" list easier to use
- Improved: Options windows resize more smoothly
- Fixed: Systems of Equations Word Problems could freeze
- Fixed: Punctuation in some word problems
- Fixed: Certain expressions in a custom question would cause the software to crash
- Fixed: Expressions like root × term would not print a multiplication dot
- Note: Beginning with this version, Windows XP SP3 is the minimum required version of Windows
- Note: Older versions will not be able to open assignments saved with this version
Included in version 1.45 released 4/12/2011:
- New: Assignments from this program can be opened and modified by our other programs (Assignments saved with v1.45 or greater can be opened by other programs v1.45 or greater)
- New: Student data fields (name, date, period) can be renamed
- New: Additional student data field available
- New: Add & Continue is available when modifying an existing question set
- New: Link to this details page when a software update is available
- New: Product serial numbers can be placed in config.txt to facilitate enterprise installations
- Improved: Better backwards- and future-compatibility
- Fixed: Add & Continue respects change in problem type
- Fixed: Assignments with quotes in the title don't prevent Save As
- Fixed: Quotients could be sometimes be simplified incorrectly
- Fixed: Multi-Step Equations: Program could freeze
- Fixed: Properties of Exponents, numeric expressions: Program could freeze
- Fixed: Two-Step Equations no longer allows denominators of 1
- Fixed: Two-Step Inequalities no longer allows denominators of 1
- Fixed: Dividing Radical Expressions: Program could freeze
- Fixed: Writing Linear Equations: Answer can't be line given in question
- Fixed: Powers of i are correctly displayed
Included in version 1.42 released on 6/28/2010:
- New: Automatically checks for updates
- New: List topics by index order or suggested order
- New Topic: The Discriminant
Included in version 1.40 released 2/8/2010:
- New Preference: 'Spacious' or 'tight' layout of questions on page
- Improved: Question sets with one question are more intelligently spaced
- Improved: Topic Sets of Numbers now explains N, W, Z, Q, R, and I
- Improved: Graphs with small ranges now look better
- Improved: Options screen now resizeable
- Fixed: Directions occasionally orphaned at bottom of page
- Fixed: Correct numbers changed because zeros at the end of a number were deleted (50 --> 5)
Included in version 1.38.20 released 5/22/2009:
- Changed: Minor change to license agreement so that renewals extend the termination dateinstead of beginning a new term.
Included in version 1.38 released 4/10/2009:
- New: Possible to change directions for a set without regenerating questions
- Improved: Help files
- Improved: Changing directions cascades changes to appropriate neighbors
- Correction: Answers to Properties of Exponents could have wrong sign
- Correction: Inequalities were sometimes solved incorrectly
- Fixed: Software sometimes failed to renumber questions in assignment
Included in version 1.37 released 1/6/2009:
- New Topic: Factoring out the GCF
- Fixed: Software crashes when starting if closed when side panel is minimized
Included in version 1.35 released 11/13/2008:
- Improved: Isolate up to four questions on screen at once
- Improved: Support for computers with multiple processors
- Improved: User interface: Toolbar + Preferences
- Fixed: Obscure error involving selecting a question and scaling the assignment
Included in version 1.32 released 10/1/2008:
- New: Export individual questions as bitmaps
- Improved: Custom questions wrap to whole/half page
- Improved: Insert special symbols and math in custom questions
- Improved: Insert 'blanks' into math text
- Improved: Line thickness preference also now controls darkness of grid lines in graphs
- Fixed: Internet calls would sometimes report wrong error
Included in version 1.30 released 7/30/2008:
- New: Add & Continue button
- New: Undo / redo
- New: Alternate wide screen layout
- Improved: Can manually enter compound inequalities
- Improved: Can manually enter all Greek letters, including pi and theta
- Improved: Better at reaching the theoretical number of possible questions
- Improved: More professional-looking assignments
Included in version 1.20 released 9/2/2007:
- New: Single-question display for teaching with LCD projectors and other display systems
- New: Custom questions can contain math-formatted text
- New: Manually modify questions that have been automatically generated
- New: Check for and download future updates from within Infinite Algebra 1
- New Topic: Graphing exponential functions
- New Topic: Mixture word problems
- New Topic: Distance-rate-time word problems
- New Topic: Work word problems
- New Topic: Systems of equations word problems
- New Topic: Finding trig. ratios
- New Topic: Finding angles using trigonometry
- New Topic: Finding missing sides using trigonometry
- New option: Adding/subtracting polynomials: maximum degree can be 2
- New option: Distance formula questions: given a line segment on a graph
- New option: Graphing quadratic functions & inequalities: given transformational form
- New option: Custom questions can now have separate directions
- Correction: Right edge of bounding box of logarithms correctly calculated
- Correction: Certain answers are now rounded off instead of truncated
- Correction: Custom directions are now word-wrapped instead of running off of page
- Correction: Order of operations topic printed extra parentheses under certain conditions
- Fixed: Program crashed when loading an assignment with a question set with zero questions
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