mentalmath 0.1.7

A mental math training app.

mmath

A mental math training TUI application. Built with Python using the textual library.

Features

• Covers many of the standard mental math challenges, including arithmetic, exponents, fractions, complex numbers, unit conversions, and day of the week questions.
• Supports quizzes with an arbitrary maximum number limit and number of questions.
• Options to set a limit on the time per question and make the question vanish after a specified period.
• Detailed data screen with options to question type, question time, or number of mistakes

Guides

There are many resources available that detail methods to calculate quickly and accurately.

• World Mental Calculation
• Secrets of Mental Math, by Arthur Benjamin and Michael Shermer

Gallery

Usage

Run mmath from the command line to start the application. Press h to view the help screen which details the options.

Installation

1. With uv

mmath can be run with uv with the command

uvx mentalmath

It can be installed with

uv tool install mentalmath

and then run with mmath from the command line.

To build from source with uv, run

git clone https://github.com/kianbroderick/mmath.git
cd mmath
uv pip install -e .

to clone the repository and install the program to a virtual environment.

2. Using pip

Install mmath to your global or virtual environment with

pip install mentalmath

Run the application with mmath.

mmath can be built from source with the following commands:

git clone https://github.com/kianbroderick/mmath.git
cd mmath

Install textual in either the global or virtual evironment with

pip install textual

Run the application with

pip install -e .
mmath

Future improvements

• add a screen to type in memorized digits of pi or e
• more operations
• add score tracking and statistics over multiple sessions

License

mmath is licensed under the terms of the MIT License.