What is SpexWorld! School?

SpexWorld! School is a fun and rewarding way to grasp basic ICT and maths concepts in a practical setting.

Have lots of fun planning and designing the rooms in a school. You can design and furnish single or multiple room shapes or use Spex's simple room planner to design a whole floor plan: classroom, IT Room, Gym and changing rooms etc. Decide upon room sizes and a budget to spend and see the furniture and fittings on a simple spreadsheet.  

Once the room shape and dimensions have been chosen you can start placing the furniture. All the furniture can be moved around and rotated and you can display the 3D and Plan Views at any time.

3D display

Plan View display

At any time you can click on the Go-In button and use the arrow keys to walk around inside your virtual SpexWorld!

Walk around inside the school, looking from the IT Room into the Gymnasium!

Budget, Graphs and Spreadsheet

SpexWorld! School has a budget facility and a simple spreadsheet to help pupils learn about budgeting, handling and managing money. Change the prices and see how this affects the spreadsheet. Pupils also become familiar with shapes, space and dimensions, proportion and symmetry as they design and furnish different shaped rooms.

There are graphs and charts including 2D and 3D bar graphs, line graph and a pie chart which display the items and costs. Toggle between the Orthographic and Perspective views of your school plan design and walk around it to see what it feels like for real!

Design your school to a budget and see the effects of using different items and prices in the graphs and spreadsheet.

There are 2D, 3D graphs and pie charts

A great introduction to spreadsheet modelling

SpexWorlds!