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Surface 2.0 is on its way, and all your favourite nsquared software for Microsoft® Surface® is ready and waiting for you – bigger, brighter and better than ever! We make investing in Surface a breeze with ready-to-go software for education, business, hospitality, tourism, real estate, finance, retail and more. Whatever your questions, we have the answers you need, backed by years of hard-earned experience.

Creative, competitive, and collaborative

The nsquared education software solutions is designed to focus on the development of numeracy and literacy skills, and creative skill development. The social nature of a Surface device encourages collaboration and sharing even in competitive game situations. Each of the ten different activities is customisable with the unique nsquared teacher tool, providing plenty of options for students and teachers alike.

Game-Based Learning

The nsquared education software solutions is the fun way to learn. Students become quickly immersed in the activities and don't even realise that they are learning. Whilst the games are essentially competitive, they encourage collaboration, cooperation and sharing. In the classroom situation we've also seen them inspire leadership.

Content Packs

Customise your apps! Download fresh, themed content from this website by clicking on the "Content Packs" item to the right, or add your own by using images from your personal collection.

nsquared letters

A free form language application designed for use with or without guidance. The nsquared letters application allows students to explore words in virtually any language that uses the Latin alphabet.

nsquared numbers

A free-form application that can be used to teach basic mathematical concepts. How many ways can your students make the sum of ‘7’, or ‘48’, or any other number you’d like to explore? Great for small group learning.

nsquared makewords

This structured educational game will help students learn object recognition and differentiation, and improve their recall and spelling. Teachers have the ability to create their own curriculum-relevant content packs by using the Teacher Tool to change the content.

nsquared herding

nsquared herding is designed to develop numeracy and pattern matching skills. It can be customised to create curriculum relevant content in much the same way as nsquared MakeWords.

nsquared snap

This turn-taking memory game requires students to match overturned cards. Only two cards may be turned over at any one time in attempt to find a matching pair.

nsquared missing card

nsquared missing card is a pattern-matching game designed for players of all ages. It requires students to select and display the missing card from the displayed pattern.

nsquared paint

nsquared paint allows students to use standard painting tools such as fingers, hands and paintbrushes to create their own digital art masterpieces. With 12 supplied colour palettes, they can explore and learn colour mixing, colour combinations and learn to create their own colour palettes.

nsquared chemistry

nsquared chemistry provides the opportunity to build elements and molecules in a virtual lab. The user interface allows students to work independently or collaboratively to solve the preprogrammed exercises. Students create the elements by specifying its proton count and valence, and then place it in the correct place on the compound diagram.

nsquared circuits

This app provides a free-form space that allows students to create any electrical circuit that is desired. Use any combination of batteries, resistors, motors, lights, and more to learn how electrical circuits work! Circuits can be created individually or collaboratively on the 360 degree multi user, multi touch interface that is provided by Surface.

nsquared coinswap

The nsquared coin swap game challenges players to use their knowledge of coin values and their mathematical skills to collect the greatest amount of money possible each game. Right now it includes activities with American, Australian, British, Canadian, European and Japanese coins, with more to come!

nsquared teacher tool

Customise your apps!

The nsquared teacher tool enables you to change the content of each of the activities. Select new images from the supplied content packs, or create your own using images from your personal collection.

The simple point and click interface makes it a snap to add and remove questions and tailor the lessons to any curriculum. Once you're done, save it and plug the USB key into the Surface unit for auto updating.

Fruit pack

Full of fruity goodness, this content pack of nine different fruits is ready to sync with the nsquared education packs below. Feel free to modify it with the nsquared teacher tool (once you've downloaded it) by adding more images and defining content as you see fit.

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Marine pack

If it's under the sea, that you'd like to be, download the Marine Pack. Start conversations and inspire project based investigations with this pack of marine life images.

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Farm pack

The Farm pack is filled with images of working and stock farm animals (along with the occasional villain) ready for you to use as-is. Of course you can add your own images or add to in order to enhance the lesson further.

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Medieval pack

Catapaults, Castles and Kings! Spark the imaginations of your students with this Medieval starter pack.

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Dinosaurs pack

Who doesn’t get excited over dinosaurs? The dinosaur content pack will get students excited about learning and has some challenging dinosaur names to spell. Download and try it yourself!

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Flags pack

Can your students recognise the flag for Australia? Venezuela? China? No? Use the flags of the world content pack to teach them!

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Instruments pack

Music is the universal language of the world, and this pack is all about the instruments that make the music we all love. Help students identify some of the different musical instruments with this content pack.

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Elements pack

Are you students having trouble matching elements with their corresponding symbols? Help them learn and identify them with this content pack!

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Foods pack

Can you tell the difference between healthy and unhealthy foods? Are you able to identify common foods? No? Download this content pack to expose your kids to new foods!

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Numbers pack

Numbers are used everyday and are important for our kids to learn and understand early. Teach them basic numeracy and identifying different numbers and patterns with this content pack.

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Sports pack

Learning about different sports? Do your students know which equipment goes with certain sports? Help them make associations between sports and images with this content pack.

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Tools pack

Tools are a common sight in society and a necessary component of building, can your kids identify, name and spell different tools? Do they know their use? Teach this through the tools content pack!

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Vehicles pack

Vehicles are a daily part of life, we use them to get from A to B, for fun, exercise and competitive sports. There are many different types of vehicles, can you kids identify all of them in the vehicles content pack? Download it now and find out!

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education software in action

Want to find out more about how each of our education software solutions works? Click the link below to download nsquared showcase for Windows 7 and Microsoft Surface.

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